And new research suggests runaway worlds taken in by the solar system ... between Earth and the sun). The work also reveals that our planetary system is capable of drawing in bodies much bigger ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

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

the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar mystery. Even though everything in the solar system revolves around the sun, scientists have yet to unlock many of the star’s secrets.

MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The solar-powered system ... Electrodialysis uses an electric field to draw out salt ions as water is ...