"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 ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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

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

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

PUNCH's main goal is to study how the Sun's corona transforms into solar wind, a stream of charged particles that flows ...

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

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...