This invisible boundary is known as the heliosphere. It's the endpoint beyond which our Sun does not have any reach or power.
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How We Found Earth's Location in the Milky Way

Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...
Columnist John Breunig gets starry-eyed taking a tour of the new Planetarium & Astronomy Center at the Stamford Museum & ...
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our solar system.
A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...
Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic particles in real time. Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The commercial systems that fueled B2B growth over the past two decades are no longer fit ...
If you didn't know, the Jurassic World: Rebirth star and Colin have been married since October 2020. So, it's fair that she would get asked a question about her hubby's future on the late-night show.