Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts all of Earth on ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

Are either of the Voyager spacecraft capable of taking a picture of our solar system from their current interstellar ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

In the years since, the worlds of science and ... thing at the edge of the solar system. Who would not think it's kind of weird and small and cute? And now we've seen pictures of it.

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...