Scientists have found a protective bubble around a young star, HD 61005. This astrosphere, similar to our Sun's heliosphere, shields planets from harmful cosmic rays. The discovery helps understand ...

What would it take to accelerate to Interstellar space by a NASA spacecraft deliberately, within a time that is short enough that the people who designed it and studied it will be available to analyze ...

The Princeton-led NASA mission has officially begun its science mission to study the sun and everything it touches. Princeton marked the occasion with a panel discussion, science talks and a reception ...

A steady stream of particles forms a huge bubble around the Sun. Now, such a structure has been found around a Sun-like star ...

The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.

The star system has been nicknamed the “Moth” because of its wing-like disk, visible in infrared observations, of leftover ...

Astronomers have captured the first detailed views of a young sun-like star blowing massive bubbles, offering a rare glimpse ...

On Thursday, Princeton University celebrated its leading role in NASA’s IMAP mission, highlighting how faculty and students are collaborating to study the boundary of our solar system and improve ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual. A star, much like our own Sun when it was young, is blowing a bubble through ...

A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers observed HD 61005, a star about 120 light-years from Earth with roughly the ...

Astronomers have captured the first clear image of a giant “bubble” surrounding a young star that closely resembles what our ...