The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered a groundbreaking view of the early solar system, focusing on icy celestial bodies such as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. These ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

The 2025 skywatching guide includes a rare sunrise solar eclipse, an occultation of Mars and three supermoons. Here are the ...

In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — ...

Now, anything in the Solar System has a front-row view of its stellar activity: Ross 248 has supplanted Proxima Centauri as the closest star in the sky. It now sits a mere three light-years away.

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

For spectators, total solar eclipses – such as the one that dazzled millions in April across North America – represent ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...