The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Why Can't We Find Planet 9? Deep in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond Neptune and Pluto, something massive is hiding in the dark. Scientists call it "Planet 9." For decades, ...

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 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has generated the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the Sun's outer atmosphere, revealing critical details of a boundary that marks where material escaping from the ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a sheath of gas heated to tens of thousands of degrees, a kind of invisible ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...