The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

The sun's outer atmosphere has recently been likened to a pufferfish, revealing fascinating new insights into our solar system. This unique comparison stems from the first verified maps of the Alfvén ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map ...

Far beyond Neptune, something heavy appears to be tugging on the outer solar system, bending the paths of distant icy worlds ...

You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there's a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets the eye (or telescope). Most of the good stuff, such as the planets, moons ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Observations of the outer Solar System with the Subaru Telescope have discovered new bodies where none were expected. The new objects are likely members of a much larger population waiting to be ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...