Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Photo/Agencies] LOS ANGELES -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset ... University of Arizona in Tucson, told Live Science. In the paper, the researchers ...

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.

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

Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge ... Having an early-warning system for solar flares could help us protect infrastructure and technology ...