As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

J. Horner, S. R. Kane, J. P. Marshall, P. A. Dalba, T. R. Holt, J. Wood, H. E. Maynard-Casely, R. Wittenmyer, P. S. Lykawka, M. Hill, R. Salmeron, J. Bailey, T ...

James O'Donoghue went viral for the first time in December 2018. He was a planetary scientist for NASA at the time, but the federal government had temporarily shut down due to budget disputes in ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024. On April 8, 2024, a 115-mile-wide strip of North ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The size of the solar system is defined by the volume ...

Stellar rings: an infrared image of rings around a star that was taken by ALMA. (Courtesy: ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) The clear divide between the inner and outer solar system is the legacy of a ring ...

As one of five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of Magnetospheres is tasked ...

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos—the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just one planetary system (the solar ...