These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played ... large to sustain an extended period of magmatic ...

Our sun has an 11-year-long solar cycle, during which its magnetic activity fluctuates ... Voyager probe at the distant edge ...

which NASA describes as the most powerful explosive events in our solar system. This heightened solar activity could increase the likelihood of celestial events like the Aurora Borealis (also ...

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

The Valentine's Day northern lights will largely be visible in Canada and Alaska, but a few northern-most states may see the ...

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 ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere estimates.

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

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.