Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft is being prepped for a 2025 launch to study the solar system’s outer boundary and solar wind from its ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.