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 .

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...