The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at ...
The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.
Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
A team of scientists has unveiled the existence of an interstellar tunnel near our solar system, which could be a gateway to ...
Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.
A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are ...
A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.