Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

A steady stream of particles forms a huge bubble around the Sun. Now, such a structure has been found around a Sun-like star ...

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.

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Researchers have finally determined the shape of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that protects our Solar System from galactic radiation. Unlike previous models, this zone, generated by solar wind ...