The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around ...

or rogue planets can lead them into these capture points, potentially altering the dynamics of our Solar System. "The permanent capture of a small body, P, about the Sun, S, from interstellar ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

All the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. At certain points during these orbits, the Earth finds itself directly between the Sun and another planet. Tonight, it will be Jupiter's ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

Look up into the sky above Washington state this month on a clear night, and you might see a rare celestial occurrence in the sky. During January 2025, a large planetary conjunction involving four ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...