Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

After weeks of reduced activity, the sun erupted with three powerful flares on a single day. That could send solar flares toward Earth, impacting electronics and making it possible to view the ...

In what we can only interpret as a show of solidarity for the Solar System's beleaguered dwarf planet Pluto, the Sun put its heart prominently on its sleeve atmosphere. On the side of the Sun facing ...

A new NASA study has found that the Sun's activity is ramping up, reversing the trend and surprising astronomers. Humans have known about sunspots since around 800 BCE, when ancient Chinese ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

From the 1980s thru 2008, scientists observed that nuclear activity inside the Sun was continuously trending downward, and it was expected that this would continue. However, a new study by the ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

Auroras aren't over: the sun's decline brings more storms, and a 'last gasp' finale could light up skies in the next 2 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...