interstellar medium
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very complex molecule out there in space. Called Buckyballs, after…
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they…
Could Magnetic Sails Slow an Interstellar Spacecraft Enough?
A new study by Professor Claudius Gros - who proposed The Genesis Project - indicates how magnetic sails could be…
NASA Voyager Probes Still Going Strong After 40 Years
The Voyager probes, humanity's longest-running and farthest-reaching missions, are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this summer!
What Will the Voyager Spacecraft Encounter Next? Hubble Helps Provide a Roadmap
The twin Voyager spacecraft are now making their way through the interstellar medium. Even though they are going where none…
IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System
[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…
Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?
[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A “Monster in the Dark”
[/caption] Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive…
Local Interstellar Gas Mapped in 3-D
[/caption] Astronomers have created a new 3D map of the interstellar gas in the local area around our Sun. "Local"…