Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

The solar system is a collection of celestial objects bound to the sun by gravity. At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else ...

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." The world's largest solar ... the surface of our star.