He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

After five years in deep space, Solar Orbiter has again amazed scientists with an unprecedented high-resolution image of the ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Scientists from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, together with scientists from the University of Graz, ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system ... sun, it's the second hottest and orbits on average 36 million miles away from ...

The robotic Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn looked back toward the eclipsed Sun and saw a view ... into the deepest reaches of our solar system. These probes, unlike the Hubble ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." ...