In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is ...

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system. Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape ...

NASA released an animation that shows the solar flares blasting ... Flares are our solar system's largest explosive events. They are seen as bright areas on the sun and can last from minutes ...

Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...