NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

The Solar System has a new confirmed comet, after repeated observations of candidate 456P/PANSTARRS showed it is an active, ...

The data used for the simulations was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots ...

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to watch the sun for any ejections of plasma that may hit Earth and damage power grids.

Our sun has an 11-year-long solar cycle, during which its magnetic activity fluctuates ... Voyager probe at the distant edge ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully reproduce the compositions of large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, in light of the ...