Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...

Sometimes metres and kilometres are used to measure objects and distances in space, especially if they are small or within our solar system. A light year would be an inappropriate unit of ...

A solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to Hudson Valley on New Year's Eve, but the weather might not cooperate.

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

An extended period of gusty winds is expected in the final days of 2024, with the return of Santa Ana winds on New Year's Day ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught the first-ever direct photograph of a solar system that looks very much like our own — only much younger. Nearly 300 light-years away, it has a Sun-like ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and advanced computer models have classified a type of planet unlike any in our ...

Data sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System. Forty-two years after they were launched, the spacecraft are still going strong and exploring ...

Artist's impression of a Sun-like star exhibiting a superflare as seen in visible light. (Credit: MPS/Alexey Chizhik ... “We cannot observe the Sun over thousands of years,” Sami Solanki, an ...

The Sun was a hive of activity on December 29-30, with multiple powerful flares and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs).