The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...

Now that the Voyager 1 space probe has officially left the solar system, it would be nice to know where it is, exactly, in the large scheme of things. This crafty map will help. https ...

As the team's map shows, the heliosphere doesn't exactly stay true to the "sphere" part of its name; the barrier around the solar system is more of a wibbly-wobbly blob that's far thinner on one ...

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 ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space.

Getting samples of the undisturbed interstellar magnetic field could also help map the distribution and shape of the interstellar clouds of gas and dust that surround our solar system such as the ...

What happens next? And in another paper, a crew of planetary scientists offer the first detailed catalog of where all the known caves in our solar system are found. "We now have what I hope will ...

Solving this mystery could also help reveal how Io’s lunar sibling Europa and other icy moons manage to harbor vast, potentially habitable liquid-water oceans despite the outer solar system’s ...