Science news articles about 'outer limits'

A spacecraft designed to map the outer edges of our solar system is in orbit high above the Earth after a successful launch Sunday, NASA said Monday.

... system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said on Wednesday.

... control over activities such as mining. Both countries will use the resulting data to establish the outer limits of the continental shelf, according to the criteria set out in the Convention on the ...

... of the collaborative study gives the results added credibility. Most studies look at populations on the outer limits of a species' environment, and Janzen and his colleagues set out to study the ...

... In pictures: Visions of Saturn It's being touted as a stunning find. After decades of searching the outer limits of space for signs of life, it's been hiding away right under our noses all along. ...

A NASA satellite scanning the outer limits of the solar system has found an unexpected dense "ribbon" of gas there.