Astronomers have captured videos of the sun without the typical blur caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

But do other planets have seasonal patterns, too? Indeed, other planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system do have seasonal ... seasonal changes. The shape of a planet's orbit can ...

They believe that Vesta was on its way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System's rocky planets likely ... primarily using the gravity and shape data from the Dawn mission," Park and co ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system ... a planet. The decision came after scientists established three criteria for what defines a planet: it must orbit the sun, be spherical in shape ...

2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of ...

Giant planets can take shape in two ways: by slowly building solid cores that attract gas, like our solar system, or by rapidly collapsing from a young star's cooling disk into massive objects.

All seven planets in the solar system will align ... Alignments and Space Exploration Planetary alignments have helped shape space exploration. In 1966, NASA scientist Gary Flandro discovered ...

At the edge of our solar system ... and are ejected by planets before they can heat up and become active comets. The researchers involved with the new study were interested in the inner Oort cloud for ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...