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

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.

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

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute who co-led the work. "How common is this for long period ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

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

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science ...

We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours. From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system is—or how ...