The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

This is why we call Mars, the Red Planet. Mars is most like Earth ... light to get through In the centre of the Solar System is the Sun, our star. It is a huge ball of burning gas made mostly ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano ... dusty disk that surrounded our young sun. Over time, the red planet’s innards differentiated into a core, a mantle, and an outer crust ...

The robotic Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn looked back toward the eclipsed Sun and saw a view unlike ... into the deepest reaches of our solar system. These probes, unlike the ...

The sun doesn't just shine ... known as the solar wind, surges outward at hundreds of kilometers per second, drenching Earth and the entire solar system in a flood of electrons, protons, and ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the most foreboding. On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from ...

The imaging spectro-polarimeter was developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg (Germany). The Max Planck Institute for Solar System ... of the Sun and in the directly ...