While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system.

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

The elements at the center of this study are interstellar ... could be transferred from Alpha Centauri to the Solar System not only deepens our knowledge of interstellar transport but also opens ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons ... new moons,” said Mike Alexandersen at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an author of a paper announcing the discovery ...

"We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little ... α Cen's orbit about the Galactic center viewed on the x–y and y–z planes (top row), as well as the orbits of the ...