Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar ...
Earth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere and led to the development of multiple ice ages, researchers suggest.
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Pictorial view of the Earth's orbit and the interstellar flow, as seen from far above the North Pole. During the wind's journey through the Sun's gravitation, it is bent like a soccer ball that is ...
Editor's note: NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 a.m. for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions. Much as ...
Image: The inner, yellow portion of HD 61005’s disk spans 5.4 billion miles, or about the width of Neptune’s orbit in our own solar system. This false-color Hubble view masks the star’s direct light ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is reshaping scientists' understanding of how life-forming chemistry may arise beyond the Solar ...
The solar journey through space is carrying us through a cluster of very low density interstellar clouds. Right now the Sun is inside of a cloud, the Local Cloud, that is so tenuous that the ...