ESA’s Solar Orbiter captures the first detailed look at the Sun’s poles, revealing fast-moving plasma and magnetic flows.

The sun is governed by a strict rhythm. The magnetic activity of the sun displays a cyclic variation, reaching a maximum ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Why do all the planets orbit in nearly the same plane? This episode explores the birth of the solar system from a collapsing ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L.

A recent property tax decision from the Connecticut Appellate Court, McHenry Solar, LLC v. Town of Hampton, Conn. App. Ct., Dkt. No. AC ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Rare interstellar visitor the size of Manhattan carries secrets from distant star system Controversial 'comet': An artist's rendition of Comet 3I/ATLAS as it rockets through our Solar System at 58 km ...

An interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is speeding through our solar system in 2025, marking only the third such visitor. Traveling at 130,000 mph, it will make close approaches to Mars and Jupiter, ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...