Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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

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

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

Understanding Mercury can help scientists understand Earth and how the rocky planets of the inner solar system formed. The BepiColombo flyby images are a tantalizing preview of the science yet to ...