NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

SummaryNASA's new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to ...

The composition of crystals in volcanic rocks changes with their ages in ways that correlate with the Solar System’s ...

In a cosmic twist worthy of sci-fi, new research from Curtin University reveals that Earth’s crust may carry the fingerprints ...

There is a direct link between Earth’s crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way’s structure, as found by a new study.

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...