As a partial solar eclipse took place across the Northern Hemisphere, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to try to get ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe ... Need a new idea to keep kids entertained? Try stargazing. Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and ...

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system. Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape ...

He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

If you like it then you should put a ring on it. Saturn is home to the Solar System’s most epic ice rink. Being so far from the Sun, the water in its rings is frozen into ice. It is one of four ...

The first solar eclipse ... the-dark art can help kids appreciate this celestial event. One of the most important lessons to teach kids is that looking directly at the sun—even during an eclipse ...

But what’s it like on other planets? There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.