Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

Astronomers believe it formed about 4.5 billion years ago, when a massive interstellar cloud of gas and dust collapsed on itself, giving rise to the star that anchors our solar system—that big ...

An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...

Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar system, but is so humongous that ... a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, and Fred C. Adams, a professor of ...

To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that ... the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO ...

For starters, the asteroid’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s earliest days, more than 4.5 billion years ... Michael Greshko is a staff science writer for National Geographic.

The findings, published June 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy ... Related: Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Neptune "We did not expect ...

The sun's "weather" is of interest to solar physicists because it can create adverse conditions for space travelers, communications satellites and even electrical systems on Earth. Harvey was ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...