NASA intends to take an unprecedented 3D observation of the sun this month. In doing so, the agency hopes to understand why its outer atmosphere — the corona — is hotter than its surface, how does the ...

The researchers said the newly discovered solar system is 300 light-years away, relatively close by galactic standards. They said the star is officially known as TYC 8998-760-1 and located in the ...

Less than 100,000 years later, the cloud collapsed, triggering the birth of our solar system. The 3D models revealed that only one or two "fingers" could explain the short-lived radioactive ...

Scientists have released the first ever picture of a solar system like our own – a Sun-like star, orbited by multiple exoplanets.. It is the first time that astronomers have been able to ...

Solar wind repels 70% of cosmic radiation, but it doesn't protect every side of the solar system equally. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system.