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

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

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

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

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...