The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

The star that is at the center of our solar system has become in recent years a focal point in our space exploration efforts, with several missions dedicated to studying it making their way into the ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...