A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. The app, called Star Chart for VR, is billed as the first virtual ...

In the meantime, the data about interstellar material, magnetic fields and cosmic rays they are sending back from the edge of the Solar System, correlated with Hubble's observations, will go a ...

Analyzing that chart can reveal an object’s temperature ... Uranus and Neptune during the early formation of the solar system ...

And as they did so, they sent back sensor data. Also, NASA launched IBEX into orbit back in 2009—its purpose is to study the characteristics of the boundaries of the solar system. By analyzing ...