The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

Hidden by the Sun’s glare, a new space object has been found lurking in our Solar System, and it's one of the fastest-moving ...

Three interstellar objects; ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS—have passed through the Solar System. This article details ...

Researchers have been focusing on the study of our solar system for centuries, looking at the physics, dynamics, as well as the composition of solar system bodies. Our solar system – which includes ...

What Matters Now • The extraordinary discovery of the “twilight” asteroid 2025 SC79, detected by the Dark Energy Camera, ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now? The sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, deep ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are predicted to collide and merge between 3.9 and 5.6 billion years from now, based on observed relative motion. The merger process will involve multiple ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope ...

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...