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

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a sheath of gas heated to tens of thousands of degrees, a kind of invisible ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration of the Voyager 1 probe travelling into the Oort Cloud. | Credit: Science ...

If you travel far enough away from the Sun, the Solar System becomes a lot more populated. Out past the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast, ring-shaped field of icy rocks. This is where ...