When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia has worked to develop countermeasures to space-based internet systems—and one such ...

Why today’s AI systems struggle with consistency and how emerging world models aim to give machines a steady grasp of space ...

The exhibit combines ultra-high-definition images taken by the James Webb Telescope with giant models of the planets and suns ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...