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If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

Did you know our entire Solar System is cocooned inside a giant protective bubble, known as the heliosphere? Created by the perpetual outflow of charged particles from the Sun, called the solar wind, ...

The Solar System is vast, made up of eight planets, countless moons, and millions of asteroids, all orbiting the Sun. But like any territory, it has a boundary. This boundary is invisible, yet it ...

World views and the solar system -- Earth-centered world views in classical Europe -- Non-European world views -- Earth-centered world views in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Sun-centered and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy. By Kenneth Chang For only the third time, astronomers have found ...