For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As ...

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

The observations offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an emerging planetary system, said the University of ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter have captured the closest-ever images of the Sun. Flying within just ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...