The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

Have you ever indulged the depths of your intrusive thoughts and wondered how the universe is going to smash and chew up our little planet over billions of years? Well, that’s more or less what ...

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in fact. That puts our solar system’s age at 4.5684 billion ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

As anticipation builds for next month’s total solar eclipse, Summerville native and author of the STEAM-powered children’s series “The Chronicles of Ms. Clarke’s Class,” Julie Packett, has announced ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the ...

C omet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object to cross the Solar System, and in a matter of days it will pass the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...