As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar ... Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri. This stellar system ...

Skywatchers across at least 18 states may have the chance to see the northern lights on Tuesday as a coronal mass ejection ...

In the solar system, the most massive object by ... We know it's sitting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri. A telescope constructed from the solar gravitational lens would be able to map the ...

The planet, designated Proxima Centauri b, represents one of the most significant astronomical findings of the century, potentially redefining our understanding of habitable worlds beyond our solar ...

Abstract: The multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) is highly structured, on scales from the size of the Solar System ... degree map of the neutral and low-ionized ISM in front of the nearby (∼5 kpc), ...

Instead of measuring the distance to Proxima Centauri in terms of kilometres ... Suppose that we used our ‘consciousness camera’ to map not just our corner of the solar system but the entire Universe.

Firefly shows that in the 26th century, humans have left Earth and colonized a new solar system. At that time ... off on a journey to establish human settlement on the planet Proxima Centauri B. In ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in our solar system (after giving Pluto the old heave-ho and demoting it to a dwarf planet) and now researchers say they’ve found a ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...