The interstellar network is sustained by the explosive life cycles of stars that generate powerful solar winds. Past research ...

However, on the much smaller scales of our solar system, it’s hard to measure the miniscule changes affected by dark matter, even at the distances of the outer planets. Credit: Astronomy: Roen ...

The research team said a typical cycle of measurements takes five minutes. To verify the accuracy of the new robot, the TRMC transients were measured 50 times over the identical sample.

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 240,000 years—a tiny fraction of a percent.

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The imprecision in the measurements of claimed interstellar fireballs means it is highly likely they originate in the solar system instead, a new study reports.

China's Fujian Metrology Institute (FMI) and the National Photovoltaic Industry Measurement and Testing Center (NPVM) have created a metrological traceability system for solar cell technologies ...

Then, by measuring the meteorite's lead isotopes, they determined its age to be approximately 4.564 billion years, similar to inner solar system basalts, which are present in planetary crusts.

They believe it could be part network of tunnels running between different star-forming regions - like enormous Tube train system ...