Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

The project has recently been submitted to the European Space Agency for consideration as a future mission. The current ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

NASA has revealed a terrifying glimpse into our solar system's grizzly fate. In five billion years, scientists believe the ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

Discover mind-blowing facts about the Solar System in our video "25 Insanely Cool Facts About the Solar System" WATCH OUR ...

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...