"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around (peri) the sun (helios).

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...

An “extra exceptional” Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the “huge” new world ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

Located 446 light-years from Earth, this planet, dubbed 'HD 143811 b', orbits a 'binary system' where two stars swirl around ...