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

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a recent study.

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch three spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission to study the sun's influence throughout the solar system, from Earth's atmosphere to the edge of interstellar space. A ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

The European Space Agency has quietly added a major piece to its global space communications network with the inauguration of ...

The system is based on a highly compact and flexible ultrathin soft solar blanket that acts as the collection panel and can unroll once the satellite reaches orbit. As it does so, a 3D printer system ...