In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

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Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

The post The Best Estimates For The Age Of Our Solar System Is About 4.55 Billion Years, But The Measurement Method Is ...

Solar flares and other activity can disrupt radio communications, power grids and navigation signals, according to NASA.

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 ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to display a Sun-facing anti-tail, confirmed by Hubble, Gemini and XMM-Newton ...

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 ...

Is Comet 3I/ATLAS the Oldest Comet Visitor from the Solar System? Learn about Comet 3I/ATLAS, its origins, discovery, why it ...