The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

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. The investigation has ...

If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...