When an object from outside our star system zooms through our neighborhood in the solar system, it provides a rare ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook ...

“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...

In principle, cosmic-ray observations can provide detailed insights into the physical profile of a passing ICME. But despite ...

China advances plans for dual solar system boundary missions China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search for ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Scientists have discovered a comet traveling one way out of the solar system after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, designated Comet A117uUD (A117uUD), was only discovered on June 14, 2024, ...