At the far edge of the Solar System, where the Sun’s influence thins into the dark between the stars, a pair of aging ...

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Observations from NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, humanity’s farthest deep space sentinels, suggest the edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles.

Voyager has boldly ventured to a stunning 50,000-degree boundary, revealing new insights into the solar system's mysteries.

The mysterious cloud of space rocks and debris at the edge of the solar system may have spiral arms, making it resemble a mini galaxy, a new study says. The Oort cloud is a theoretical debris shell at ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

In mid-November, Voyager 1 suffered a glitch, and it's messages stopped making sense. But the NASA probe is once again sending messages to Earth that make sense. We recently shared news of some ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Heads up, armchair travelers. NASA is seeking a nickname for a tiny, icy world on the edge of the solar system that’s the next destination for New Horizons, the spacecraft that ...

Skepticism is warranted. However, it could be that there is only this one planet, missed by previous surveys because it was obscured by the light from Alpha Centauri ...