We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

Although you can access Snapchat on your desktop PC, the Solar System feature is only available on Android phones and iOS. Read on to learn more about Snapchat planets, their ranking, and what ...

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

June 3, 2025 — Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this ...

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung Trans ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter ...

PARIS: It's an evocative idea that has long bedevilled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the edge of our solar system, evading all our efforts to spot it.Some ...