Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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 ...

However, they are not always in the same direction or sector, but rather scattered all around the solar system at varying positions around the sun. In mid-January, all of the planets are on one side ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward better understanding our sun's elusive behavior ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The night sky throughout the solar system may be full of color ... BepiColombo captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." The sun, for all its glitz, tends to hide behind a veil of mystery.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science ... giving us a rare view of a curious mini-moon the space agency called “the reddest object in the solar system” in a statement on May 13.

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 system's planets onto a different course.