For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

The crystal-clear images show ... offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and the most famous aspect of this gas giant (other than its size) is the ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... meaning when it left its source, the solar system was around 200 million years old. — Robert Lea Read more: Euclid ...

While our solar system is a fascinating place on its own, exoplanets are even more of a mystery. And one exoplanet in particular is something quite new.

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.