Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Japan isn’t alone in exploring the potential of space-based solar power. The United States has also been actively researching ...

Last spring, the strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades slammed Earth, producing light displays across the Northern ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

The next supermoon is expected to reach its closest distance to Earth along its orbit. But even without clouds in the sky, it ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...