Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...
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?
Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.
Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...
I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues ...
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 ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...
Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...
The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
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 ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...