Voyager 1 solar system edge revealed a sharp, energetic boundary. Here’s what it found, how NASA verified it and why it ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

China advances plans for dual solar system boundary missions China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Discover how Voyager 2 encountered the termination shock, reshaping our understanding of solar system exploration. a turbulent frontier known as the termination shock. The sun is constantly spewing ...

Overall Count and Share for 'NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)' based on the 12-month time frame mentioned above. Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one ...

Amazing NASA facts about solar system exploration It’s a bubble made by solar wind from the Sun. Its edge, called the termination shock, is about 100 times farther than Earth. What is the heliosphere?

The idea of an undiscovered giant planet lurking in the Solar System might seem far-fetched, but new simulations suggest that a giant ice planet could be hidden beyond Neptune. This follows a pattern ...

A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in radioisotope power sources for interplanetary missions to the solar ...

Humanity has explored the Moon and sent robots to Mars, but the Solar System is just our cradle. What happens when we decide ...