Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

The curious minds at What If reveal how nuking the Sun would lead to the obliteration of the entire solar system.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat plane? This fascinating ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured the most detailed images of the Sun to date using a new camera ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.