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

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

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

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

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

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

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a furnace that theory did not predict. As Voyager pushes through the heliopause, ...

If 3I/ATLAS wasn’t enough of an excitement, our solar system has recently welcomed a new comet visitor. However, like ...

Think our planet has some rough neighborhoods? Let’s be real, Earth is basically a luxury spa compared to what’s out there.

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...