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

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

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

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

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

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

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

MARS, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Venus are set to align in the sky next week in a six-strong ‘planetary parade’. All the planets in our solar system, except Mercury and ...

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

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

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...