We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

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

In January 2016, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown announced research that provided evidence for a planet about 1.5 times the size of Earth in ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

"This nebular field disappeared around ... in the solar system's outer reaches nearly four billion years ago and then moved closer to the sun, eventually settling into its present orbit between ...

Our ability to detect planets ... Sun, is one of the key challenges in modern astrophysics. A new milestone has been reached with the detection of a nascent planet in close orbit around a young star.

Our solar system consists of Sun and celestial bodies bound to it by gravity, including planets, moons, asteroids, and comets ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...