Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA has taken the unusual step of debunking ... Uranus and Neptune. The solar system is flat and all the planets orbit on more-or-less the same plane. Think of the solar system as a fried egg ...

“Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” notes Nicky Fox, head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the ...

As Farnocchia pointed out, "there could be way more dark comets than we know" in the inner Solar System, which highlights the importance of studying these objects. NASA has now been using advanced ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified flickering coronal loops in the sun's atmosphere that precede large solar flares. These variations in extreme ...