The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the ...

NASA / JPL-Caltech The eight planets in our solar system all orbit the sun in roughly ... it’ll still be worth spending a few minutes looking up to the sky after sunset. Allen recommends using ...

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Each pixel in the original version of the image corresponds ... the powerful particles, solar energy, and stellar radiation it ejects across the solar system. These solar storms routinely produce ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system ... we'll get six lined up in the morning sky ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to ... So on Ganymede we observed these chains of craters, all nicely lined up in a row, evenly spaced, very peculiar.

Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre ... BERDIS: This is an up-close image of Europa's surface, and you can see this large, dark red band in the very center of the image.

From once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipses to partial eclipses that turn the Sun into a Moon-like crescent, every eclipse is a breathtaking opportunity to see our solar system in action.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory image of a solar flare on July 16 ... "Mars has no global magnetic field, like the drawings of a magnet lined up with Earth's poles. Magnetic fields are ...