Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet. Seattle startup Interlune's ...

The Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife has been operating since 1988. In these four ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.

A narrow-band image of the Sun at a wavelength of λ=588.9nm ... and thus heralds a new era in ground-based solar observation,” Sami K. Solanki, director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System ...