Lovers of the stars, sky and space have had the option to study astronomy on the curriculum since September 2017, when ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Researchers have been focusing on the study of our solar system for centuries, looking at the physics, dynamics, as well as the composition of solar system bodies. Our solar system – which includes ...

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

It's easy to think that Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system because it is the farthest from the Sun. Astronomers have been puzzled for years by the fact that Uranus is the coldest planet ...