Comet Wierzchos makes its closest flyby at 1:24 p.m.EST (1824 GMT) on Jan. 20, passing the sun at a distance of 52.6 million ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.
How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...
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Older than the sun? Jaw-dropping secrets of 3I/ATLAS

Could a comet passing through the inner solar system be older than the Sun itself? That question sits at the center of the ...
If 3I/ATLAS wasn’t enough of an excitement, our solar system has recently welcomed a new comet visitor. However, like ...
Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...