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After crossing the boundary of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft began detecting changes scientists had ...

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Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets." ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...