Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun—a close ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

What’s the bright star in the west after sunset ... The planet—the brightest object in the solar system after the sun and moon—has been visible only in the pre-dawn sky.

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe should have completed its seventh swing past Venus on Nov. 6 — the spacecraft's final maneuver ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

The core of a star reaches temperatures ... 1 and 2 probes and NASA's various solar orbiters to study the Sun's effects on the rest of the solar system. Voyagers 1 and 2 are on a one-way trip ...

Around a neighboring star just 635 light-years away, astronomers have found even more evidence of a moon absolutely livid ...

Scientists have not yet found direct evidence of a moon outside our solar system -- but they just found a hint of a hellish ...

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in ...