A Harvard astronomer is suggesting that an interstellar object nearing Earth could be an engineered object — rather than a ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are ...

Earth’s prevailing winds are fastest in the northern hemisphere winter, but slowest from June to August, so the summer months ...

While Earth mostly succeeded in weathering last weekend's strong solar storm, experts have warned more powerful eruptions could continue to strike until 2025. A Smithsonian astrophysicist told ...

A solar flare last week was so big it disrupted radio transmissions on Earth. Nasa said the burst of energy was the biggest flare of 2025 so far, and there could be more to come, with the sun at ...

The most powerful solar particle storm known to date struck Earth in 12350 BC, according to a new study that sets a “new worst case scenario” for humanity from such colossal space weather ...

More A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists ...

Talk about a dramatic exit! The sunspot AR3664, which is about 15 times wider than Earth, has finally rotated out of our planet's view — but not before firing off two more big solar storms.

It has already caused radio blackouts and GPS disruptions. Now a new study suggests the solar storm that hit Earth last week could unleash a wave of hurricanes. The team used a model that looked ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that ...

Osiris, a gas giant about 150 light-years from Earth, orbits a yellow star similar to our sun. It is the only planet outside our solar system known to have an atmosphere.