As the team's map shows, the heliosphere doesn't exactly stay true to the "sphere" part of its name; the barrier around the solar system is more of a wibbly-wobbly blob that's far thinner on one ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing ...

Biologist Eleanor Lutz's new map of the solar system shows the precise orbital paths of more than 18,000 near celestial objects. ... Brandon has been a senior writer at Live Science since 2017, ...

Scientists Make Best-Yet Map of Solar System’s Interstellar Boundaries. ... We live in a bubble—literally. It’s called the heliosphere, and it’s made of tenuous plasma billowing from the sun.

With an estimated diameter of roughly 700 kilometers (435 miles), 2017 OF201 could be the second-largest known object in so broad an orbit, after Pluto, among the far solar system’s larger ...

Mars and ice-covered ocean moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn are intriguing destinations in the search for life outside of Earth. Multiple robotic missions, both current and planned, will explore ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system.