The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from ...

The odd nature of 3I/ATLAS led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something about the interstellar comet that's never been observed before, ...

At the moment, 3I/ATLAS is outgassing as it reaches out sun, with the JWST and NIRSpec finding that carbon dioxide, water, ...

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

The interstellar network is sustained by the explosive life cycles of stars that generate powerful solar winds. Past research ...

A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a young sun-like star in a solar system far away in what is a potentially ...

Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that ...

The sun comprises 99.9% of the total mass in the solar system. By this alone, we can have the sense of how the sun dominates everything .

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Our sun's death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?