NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has slipped closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, and its latest flyby has now delivered the most intimate images ever captured of our star. The new views do more ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Solar Orbiter is out of alignment with the rest of the Solar System. And that's a good thing. By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System's orbital plane, the ...

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While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system.Video above: Astronomers discover how planets formThe Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field ...

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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 ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system. The Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 got an incredible view of the comet ...