In the early centuries of astronomy, however, our visions of the cosmos often took the shape of diagrams—representing what we believed about our solar system. What’s remarkable about Claudius ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in ... also emerged from Voyager 2's passage through the solar system's outer edge: Just outside that boundary the ...

Instruments and art Launched on March ... The plaque depicts two nude figures – a man and a woman – along with diagrams of the solar system and the sun's position in space.

Careful study indicates they might be as old as the solar system itself, said Esposito, who also is the principal investigator on a $12 million CU Boulder instrument package ... of people and places ...

A spacecraft carrying instruments designed and built at the University of Iowa is now the second man-made object to leave our solar system and it’s heading off into interstellar space.

essentially flying outside the confines of the Solar System in order to peer down at the Sun, studying the star from a high altitude. The spacecraft carries 10 scientific instruments. Six of the ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden celestial objects.