Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey.

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

There are eight planets in our solar system ... images back to Earth. This allows us to compare the planets in even more detail. Mercury and Venus are both rocky planets. Mercury is closest to the ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...