Launched in 1997, NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has been traveling ever since, and it was around 167 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth. It was the first spacecraft to go beyond the heliosphere, ...
Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, have traversed the heliopause and are currently in interstellar space, with Voyager 1 significantly farther from the Sun due to its higher velocity. The Oort Cloud, ...
The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse. When you ...