"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

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

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.