The upcoming partial solar eclipse on March 29 is the perfect time to watch the moon hide and then reveal dark patches on the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming ... lead author and doctoral student at the University of Vienna. "Our Sun encountered a region of higher gas ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

But such events are not just a treat for stargazers – they can also have a real impact on our Solar ... The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane, and ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Starting closest to the sun, our home star's nearest neighbors, Mercury and Venus, have no true moons because of their proximity to ...

This is because the internal solar environment plays an important role in determining the weather in space and also the Earth’s climate conditions. Scientists currently rely on ...

with 1 AU being the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Previous research has suggested that the Oort cloud contains remnants of the solar system's planets, which were formed over 4 billion ...

Mars SKY AT Viewed from above the solar system, the seven planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be obscured by the sun. Viewed from above the solar system ...