The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called the heliosphere, where particles released by the Sun dominate. Beyond it, the ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics ...

Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...