Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The Sun's activity typically peaks at solar maximum, but there's an even more dangerous stage it could enter, and with ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, Mercury will join the fun, with all seven of our planetary neighbors visible ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...