Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Shepseskaf's decision to build a mastaba instead of a pyramid has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, as it marked a ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Farther out – about 9.3 trillion miles away – sits the Oort Cloud, which some refer to as the outermost boundary of the Solar System. This region is believed to hold countless icy objects that still ...

Fifty years ago today, on March 15, 1975, Aristotle Onassis drew his final breath at the American Hospital of Neuilly near Paris, felled by acute myasthenia gravis. Half a century later, the legacy of ...

NEW YORK — A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa ...