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Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Did you know our entire Solar System is cocooned inside a giant protective bubble, known as the heliosphere? Created by the perpetual outflow of charged particles from the Sun, called the solar wind, ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will track invisible particles ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy. By Kenneth Chang For only the third time, astronomers have found ...