Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

As a bonus, the mission will take 3D pictures of a solar eclipse, from space. Learning More About the Sun's Surface The system that will make these things possible is made up of four small satellites ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar ... Mars satellite images could point ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar ... system some 4 billion years ago and warped the orbits of many planets. More NASA, ESA, Caltech / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...