When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

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

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

From breathtaking views of asteroids to stunning planetary snapshots, Hubble’s exploration of our solar system has been nothing short of extraordinary. Join us as we delve into the unique and ...

Researchers analyzed SDO footage of the coronal loops preceding 50 solar flares. This video shows the flickering in a loop from 2011 in four different wavelengths of ultraviolet. (Image credit ...

open image in gallery An artist’s impression of Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system (Getty) It was also a complicated process because ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet will also be at its closest point to the Earth and might become the brightest ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...