TOPEKA (KSNT) – A meteor shower caused by a passing comet in our solar system is set to peak above Kansas this month. 27 News spoke with Brenda Culbertson, a Solar System Ambassador with NASA, about the upcoming annual shower. She says Kansans won’t need any specialized equipment, such as telescopes, to view the event […]
One of only two spacecraft built by humans to have left our solar system is alive and kicking. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced April 22 that Voyager 1 is sending engineering data back to Earth for the first time since November.
Beyond Neptune Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet out in the furthest reaches of our Solar System — and new research suggests with even more credibility that it's out there. In two new papers — one published in the Astronomical Journal, another, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, posted to the arXiv […]