A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

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 ...

Among the planets that would get less attention are Venus, Mars and Jupiter. But the planet facing the biggest drop in ...

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

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.

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

A breakthrough in solar imaging: the new Cona adaptive optics system enables high-resolution observations of the Sun’s corona ...

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

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...