solar system

"Voyager 2 has run into a wall of fire at the edge of the solar system There is a big, giant, electrical plasma shell around our solar system" We have all been taught in school that space is a giant vacuum and we now know this is not true.

This is an interesting one. I think many of us have wondered when space mining would eventually take off, as that is just want humans do — they keep expanding out further from their source. Proposal calls for wilderness protection as startup space miners look to the stars Interplanetary...

Yes, we live down there on that little wee planet called Earth! The sun is quite a bit larger than Earth, isn't it? When we think of an ant, we think they are small, but then take into consideration a tardigrade, the little micro-animal water bear which I recently posted about here. Imagine a...

While searching for Planet Nine, a hypothetical massive planet beyond Pluto, astronomers have come across a dwarf planet which they’ve named The Goblin. It’s said to be under the gravitational influence of a giant unseen object, providing further evidence of Planet Nine. (Or should we just call...

I wonder what's beyond the wall? Maybe the door to the holodeck on the Starship Enterprise? "NASA‘s New Horizons spacecraft has helped scientists study a mysterious phenomenon at the edge of the Solar System, where particles from the Sun and interstellar space interact. This region, about 100...

Back on July 7th, ANP reported that astronomers had warned 'the hidden world of Planet X may be revealed by the end of summer' due to 'dark energy' within our solar system that might help astronomers discover the exact location of a mysterious 'Planet Nine'. As Susan Duclos reported back on...