The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

Are either of the Voyager spacecraft capable of taking a picture of our solar system from their current interstellar ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours. From there, we can try to get a sense of how weird our solar system really is -- or ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence," Balmer said. "We ...

From the lead-melting heart of Venus to the mysterious ocean worlds of the outer solar system, you can’t go wrong when you leave the Earth. How you get there is up to you. For those of you who ...