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Only two spacecraft have breached the solar system’s edge – now we're about to find out its true shape
The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called ...
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NASA just parked a spacecraft that could redraw the solar system, it might finally map its true shape
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...
With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the ...
NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...
In humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of ...
Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...
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