"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

observing and collecting components of the heliosphere — a bubble that extends from the sun and protects our solar system ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

The findings suggest the distal solar system ... Oct. 23, 2024 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C ...