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The solar system does not end neatly at Neptune’s orbit. This episode reveals the vast, invisible structure of icy debris beyond the known planets, shaped by gravity and time. From scattered objects ...

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, known as IBEX, has spent more than a decade mapping an invisible structure of magnetic fields and charged particles that envelops the solar system far beyond ...

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...