Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our ...

The spacecraft that now skims through the Sun’s blistering atmosphere is not just surviving, it is turning that hostile ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette, president of the Club, ...