ESA’s Solar Orbiter captures the first detailed look at the Sun’s poles, revealing fast-moving plasma and magnetic flows.

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Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to explore the outer reaches of the Solar System and the interstellar space beyond. Eventually, both spacecraft encountered a blazing “wall of fire” at the ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine what could happen if we moved the entire solar system. Hurricane Melissa close to breaking pressure record ahead of Jamaica landfall GOP-led Oversight ...

Rooftop solar PV has been central to the global energy transition since its origins, starting with Charles Fritts’ rooftop Selenium cell in New York in 1883. The modern era began in the 1940s, when ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

Observations made by NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Space Observatory have revealed that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS currently passing through our Solar System is emitting hydroxyl gas. This is a ...

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The solar system is a collection of celestial bodies held together by the sun's gravitational pull. Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy. The solar system consists of eight planets, ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...