The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Nasa to launch PUNCH Sun mission to recreate solar eclipse - Four suitcase-sized satellites could revolutionise our ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...