Higher solar activity brings more radiation, which can damage satellite electronics and force some satellites to deorbit ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, began observing the sun on Sept. 24, 2024. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ...

Researchers at CU Boulder will soon set their sights on the heliosphere, a massive bubble in space that surrounds our solar system and shields it from incoming radiation. NASA’s recently announced ...

A new NASA satellite will study the physics of the sun and the titanic magnetic storms, flares, and explosions that drive space weather across the solar system.

Satellite sheds new light on solar system boundary. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 9, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 10 / 151020144840.htm. University of New Hampshire.

Hyperion is the strangest-looking satellite in the solar system, its surface resembling a sponge or coral with deep, dark pits rimmed by razor-sharp ridges of brighter rock and ice.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.

Our solar system was long considered a template for all planetary systems. In the last 25 years, however, it has quickly and firmly become an outlier for lacking its own super-Earth. NASA's ...