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

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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

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

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.

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

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

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

In a few days, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are to be presented. Simulations are now raising ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...