In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could ...

A place warmer than the inside of a cooked tomato, the NASA discovery could redefine how we view our universe.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captures the first detailed look at the Sun’s poles, revealing fast-moving plasma and magnetic flows.

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...