An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space ...

The European Space Agency has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, using data from the Solar Orbiter probe.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter transforms solar flares into sound New way to study solar activity via audio and visuals Solar maximum ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, for example, swoops just a few million miles away from the sun's surface, gathering data about the fiery environment there. But then retreats beyond the orbit of Venus ...