Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

It's Mars Day! November 28 is celebrated as Red Planet Day, dedicated to honoring Mars, our fascinating planetary neighbour.

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

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Astronomers say they have figured out the true chemical makeup of our solar system, revealing that it contained much more carbon, oxygen and nitrogen than previously thought. Chiefly, the finding ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System.

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

Comets are leftovers, scraps of material that didn't make it to planethood in the events creating our solar system. Once, many astronomers believe, the solar system was full of comet nuclei ...