The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ...

The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

Over the past two decades, solar power has been undergoing a revolution. Billions of panels have been shipped to all parts of the globe. Lined up in vast arrays out in the desert and tucked away ...

(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) Saturn, by contrast, is practically defined by its extensive rings. It seems likely that, outside the Solar System, rings could be common, given the large number of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

“It’s a relic of the environment the solar system was born out of,” Rankin says of the interstellar medium. Within it are energetic atomic fragments called galactic cosmic rays, as well as ...

DartSolar wants to sell you an expandable solar array for your EV ... The startup claims its system can add anywhere from 10 to 20 miles of range per day to any EV, seeing how it estimates ...

The work joins other studies that have proposed interstellar flybys to explain eccentricities in the orbits of certain objects in the solar system. The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion ...