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

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

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

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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.

It’s kind of a freak accident that it actually happened,” said David Nesvorny with the Southwest Research Institute.

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.

A last-minute tweak to the Republican budget bill passed by Congress last month would immediately end subsidies for solar ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.