Parker's instruments are gathering measurements while the Sun is in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, a period ...
Every planet in the Solar System, including Earth, orbits a shared center of mass rather than the geometric center of the Sun ...
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...
As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are ...
Scientists studying 50 years of solar data warn Earth may be entering a heightened risk period for rare “superflares” capable of disrupting technology worldwide.
When the sun eventually expires and swells to engulf Earth, might the remnants of landfill and deeply buried nuclear waste be ...
Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's just a blip in the 13.8 billion-year story of the universe. And one day, the solar system will cease to ...
An artist's conception showing a planetary smash-up between a Moon-sized object and a Mercury-sized object. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...