An instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons is sending back data that could help scientists predict when the unmanned deep-space probe will reach interstellar space. Using the Solar Wind Around Pluto ...

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NASA’s Voyager 1 has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area, say scientists at the University of ...

Two University of Iowa space physicists report that the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which has been traveling outward from the Sun for 31 years, has made the first direct observations of the solar wind ...

“Termination Shock,” the latest novel from Neal Stephenson, opens on a Texas day in which it’s too hot for planes to take flight. While that may seem like a prediction for a warming future, it’s ...

“Termination Shock,” the latest novel from Neal Stephenson, opens on a Texas day in which it’s too hot for planes to take flight. While that may seem like a prediction for a warming future, it’s ...