The flare might just inspire a display of Northern Lights even in Illinois, Oregon, Alabama, and Northern California.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like ...

A small, icy traveler from deep space has just threaded its way through the inner Solar System, offering a fleeting but ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...