Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Pinilla-Alonso says the research helps piece together the history of the solar system's chemistry and gain insights into exoplanets, where methanol and methane play a crucial role in shaping ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system.

3 Methodology 3.1 3D solar magnetic field extrapolation Following the same procedure as Garland et al. (2023) and Yurchyshyn et al. (2022), HMI magnetic field measurements were re-binned to 1 Mm pixel ...

An illustration of the solar system (not to scale), including the sun, inner rocky planets, asteroid belt, the outer gassy planets, and—beyond Neptune—the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud.