There could be a ninth planet in our solar system that's lying in wait to be discovered - and no, it's not Pluto. Our solar ...

Using the combined might of spacecraft scattered across the Solar System, scientists have built the most detailed map yet of ...

The Sun has never looked quite like this. With a quartet of small satellites flying in formation, NASA’s PUNCH mission is ...

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

NASA's PUNCH mission is photographing the Sun like never before. It can see comets that are invisible to every other ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

The solar system originated from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust approximately 4.5 billion years ago, with the Sun forming in the central region through nuclear fusion and the planets condensing ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...