The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are ...

The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

As we speak, 3I/ATLAS is hurtling toward the inner solar system at a speed of about 130,000 miles per hour — a "thousand times over the speed limit on a highway," Harvard's Avi Loeb quipped.

That’s right, we’re bringing back geocentrism. Truly making Earth the centre of our solar system is going to take more than just fudging the maths.

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315 that resembles a young version of the Earth's own sun.

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as the International Space Station. Here's how to use it.

The sun contains over 99% of the mass of our entire solar system. Like Earth, the sun also rotates on its axis. Each rotation takes about 27 Earth days.

Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside Earth's solid core, new research suggests. The findings could have implications for a long-standing debate about how ...