"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.

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

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

The most unsettling space images are not of black holes or distant galaxies, but of stars that look eerily like our own Sun in its final moments. Astronomers can now map, almost step by step, how 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 ...

Facts About the Solar System: The solar system is a collection of celestial bodies held together by the sun's gravitational pull. Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy. The solar system ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, Mercury endures some of the most ...

The Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is extending Voyager's exploration beyond our solar system's outer planets to interstellar space — the region outside the heliosphere, a protective bubble ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...