The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists have long struggled to accurately predict solar flares, but a recent breakthrough using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has uncovered a promising new sign: flickering coronal loops. These ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Having an early-warning system for solar flares could help us protect infrastructure and technology here on Earth as well as astronauts in space from the effects of the high-energy solar radiation.

Explore the cosmic harmony between the seven chakras and celestial bodies like Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the ...

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 ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

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.