At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

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Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has successfully collected ...

One of the world’s most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars. The Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) recently ended its ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as ...

Southwest Research Institute’s novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has successfully collected ...

Designed to unveil distant galaxies, Webb will also cast our stellar neighborhood in a whole new light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

New instruments are currently being developed that will supercharge our search for life across the Milky Way galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

Editors: An image to accompany this story is available at http://www.swri.org/press/2007/swap.htm. February 7, 2007 — San Antonio — A little over a year since ...