A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

Getting out and enjoying nature doesn't have to be a rough-and-tumble experience. These camper gadgets will make your ...

The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

Experts said, “There are still undetected asteroids in the inner Solar System with the potential to cause significant ... from a space-based mission near Venus could potentially map and discover all ...

However, the vast cloud could also contain objects that formed outside of the solar system. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is believed to be between 2,000 and 5,000 astronomical units (AU) ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...