It's a good time to be an astronomer with the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing in images from deep space. Weather drawing by Breckyn from Mrs. Wing's and Mrs. Meyer's first grade class at ...

Astronomers have created the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun’s atmosphere, revealing a ...

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse. When you ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...