Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

more detailed investigation will now take place to understand how these groups came into existence. The future promises even more exciting revelations about TNOs, centaurs, and the roots of our solar ...

As scientists await detailed data ... "Parker Solar Probe is changing the field of heliophysics. After years of braving the heat and dust of the inner solar system, taking blasts of solar energy ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the ... is programmed to send home a more detailed status update on New Year's Day, Jan ...

“By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the workings of ...

The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team The Solar Orbiter mission has produced unprecedented high-resolution images of the Sun, showcasing the complex interplay of its magnetic fields and plasma ...

Since the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) was launched into space in 2018, it has successfully completed a series of feats. In 2021, it became the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun” by flying through its ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based ... For decades, this lack of detailed knowledge hindered interpretation of their color and dynamical ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed ... this lack of detailed knowledge hindered ...

People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space ... astronomers have pieced together a more detailed picture of our local region. They took on the challenging ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...