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The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...
I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...
The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...
This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun’s solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.
Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?
The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of ...
“All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” said Jamie Jasinski, study lead author and ...
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the ...
The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...
The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...
The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...