"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...

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

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

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

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

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 ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

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

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, and will be visible with binoculars ...

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 ...