While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's ...

The solar wind escaping from ... and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner, a system that injects extra fuel into the ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Nevada is one of several states being cut off from millions of dollars in community solar funding ... Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order “Unleashing American Energy,” calling for ...