The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...

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SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

The spiral shape of the Oort Cloud is thought to be ... edge of our solar system in a fundamental way. Historically, the heliosphere—the area dominated by the solar wind of the Sun—has been ...

It is surrounding us, so are we safe or are we in danger? The heliosphere was made to protect the Earth from dangerous and harmful cosmic radiation and if this spiral is changing the shape of the ...

John Etnyre receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Elaine M. Hubbard Distinguished Faculty Award When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re ...

In the April issue of SciAm, follow a man’s journey to a diagnosis, learn about exciting new schizophrenia treatments, and ...

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including a member of the self-governing island republic’s legislature, apologized Sunday after giving out prizes in the shape of a golden Chinese machine gun.

But perhaps the oddest of all is the Oort Cloud, a vast field of icy debris extending out to 100,000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. We have a rough idea of the size and shape of this ...