For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

bringing the moons out from behind the background noise in the images." Sheppard and his fellow astronomers hope that these moons can help explain the days of the early solar system, and how the ...

First discovered in 1997, Chariklo is an icy asteroid, one of the building blocks of the solar system ... move in front of a star. That background star’s light lit up Chariklo for a moment ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... The work sheds light on how today's observed spectral and dynamical distributions emerged in a planetary system that's shaped ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught the first-ever direct photograph of a solar system that looks very much like our own — only much younger. Nearly 300 light-years away, it has a Sun-like ...