The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...
On the side of the Sun facing Earth, a giant coronal hole appeared in the shape of an enormous love heart, many times the ...
Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...
Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...
The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...
Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...
The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...
Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.
First photos of the September 21, 2025 partial solar eclipse show the Moon appearing to take a bite out of the Sun.
Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...
Throughout this month you may have noticed we've been losing some of that daylight and here we are at the equinox, equal night.
New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.