Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system. None of the terrestrial planets have rings ... These special opportunities and challenges are further discussed in later ...

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 ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Kenneth Chang, a science reporter at The Times, covers NASA and the solar system, and research closer to Earth. More about Kenneth Chang Never miss a rocket launch, meteor shower, eclipse or other ...

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

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 ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially recognizes 288 planetary moons orbiting the solar system's eight worlds, according to NASA ... told Live Science in an email.