The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to find out ...

The sun keeps a tight rein on everything in the Solar System, but it isn't always the best at keeping the material in its own atmosphere under control. Wayward solar wind constantly breaks free from ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a sheath of gas heated to tens of thousands of degrees, a kind of invisible ...