A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...
A team led by Prof. YIN Huajie from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed ...
Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses ...
IMAP will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 on a mission to chart the very edge of the solar system — the heliosphere’s ...
The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...