If you would like to get an idea of how fast the reach of humankind is accelerating, consider this. In 1783, only 230 years ago, the Montgolfier brothers gave a public demonstration of the world’s ...

The instruments of the voyager discovered an area at the system edge that had an appraised temperature of particles of about 30,00050,000 in kelvin. The term “wall” might be confused with the word ...

Just in time for Halloween, scientists have discovered something spooky and strange occurring at the edge of the solar system: The heliopause — the boundary between the heliosphere (the bubble of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

For most of its lifetime, Voyager 1 has been traveling through uncharted territory. Initially launched to study the outer planets, Voyager 1 has soldiered on past Jupiter and Saturn and on to the ...

Voyager 1 and 2 Detect Unusual Activity Past the Heliopause Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have detected unexpected phenomena beyond the solar system’s boundary, offering rare insight into interstellar space ...