Joseph DeMartini's SUnward NEO Surveillance and Early Twilight detection (SUNSET) Collaboration proposes detailed surveys during twilight to detect near-Earth objects headed toward Earth from the ...

The third interstellar visitor to our solar system, 3I/ATLAS, is behaving with a precision that defies random orbital mechanics, according to a new study led by Harvard Professor Avi Loeb. In a paper ...

While Earth spins in the same direction as the sun, that's not the case for every planet in the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

Monday’s solar eclipse was incredible because the sky was very clear and observers could see the darkness of the moon and the bright white light of the sun’s corona, said Justin Kasper, chief of ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / ...