Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how ...

24P/Schaumasse will make its closest pass of the sun on Jan. 8, according to In-the-sky, when it will pass 109.7 million ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...