THE demise of a society does not happen in one single event. It occurs in small, harmless movement of guideposts that keep the society in order and progressing. For progress to move forward, though, ...

Every time the Earth and Mars slow down enough to face each other from the same side of the sun, mission planners get a brief ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could ...

NASA scientists were stunned when a strange radio signal from the Sun refused to fade away. Instead of lasting a few hours or ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

Astronomers have spotted something surprising in the far outer Solar System—a faint, short-lived atmosphere clinging to a tiny icy world that shouldn’t be able to hold one at all. The object, called ...

On May 23, 1967, a highly active sunspot region, McMath Region 8818, produced a series of solar flares. The events were massive, including a rare white-light flare and one of the largest solar radio ...

Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity ...

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an ...

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