The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has erupted again. On Friday the sun released a powerful, X4.0-class solar ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

A Harvard astronomer is making waves by suggesting that a massive interstellar object hurtling through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft. Professor Avi Loeb, who also serves as director of ...

Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth again—before it leaves our solar system. While the comet—first spotted in July—has ...

Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, expects that manufacturing plants it’s planning for Kenya and Nigeria will deliver import substitutions of $150 million each over the next five ...

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Earlier this month, the comet passed within 12 miles of Mars, giving NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a chance to capture its closest photos yet. Those images have not been ...