Solar flares have an enormous impact on the wider Solar System. These sudden releases of energy can cause geomagnetic storms ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small ...

The exhibit combines ultra-high-definition images taken by the James Webb Telescope with giant models of the planets and suns ...

Saturn might be the most breathtaking planet in our entire solar system—and somehow it still feels underrated. Beyond the ...

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

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS ...

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 ...

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