Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

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

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

One theory is that our ... system. The temperature of the central core rose as it became increasingly dense and opaque, and eventually became hot and dense enough that nuclear fusion began. The ...

"Our heliosphere is this massive, gigantic object that spans so far out from the sun ... measure the corona and solar wind in 3D, much the way polarizing sunglasses align the light particles for ...

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