NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

World views and the solar system -- Earth-centered world views in classical Europe -- Non-European world views -- Earth-centered world views in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Sun-centered and ...

Surrounding the Earth is a vast protective bubble called the heliosphere, formed by the solar wind that streams outward from the Sun. Scientists want to know what shapes this bubble and how it ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through interstellar space, potentially linking our solar system to distant stars.

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...