The Sun’s influence extends far beyond its blazing surface. The solar wind, a torrent of charged particles, streams through the solar system, shaping planetary atmospheres and space weather. Despite ...
NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand ... Around Halloween 2021, NASA ...
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.
The Earth and our solar system with it are currently at the center of a bubble in space known as a Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This is an area of hot, low-density gas which has been theorized to exist ...