Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

When a solar storm strikes Earth, it can disrupt technology that's vital for our daily lives. Solar storms occur when ...

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

Only two spacecraft have ever truly escaped the solar system, slipping beyond the Sun’s protective bubble into interstellar space. Their measurements are now reshaping how I understand the heliosphere ...

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...