An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...

When the Sun runs expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

The Kuiper Belt is an area of the Solar System with lots of small ... by the planet wouldn't necessarily be detectable from Earth, but it might be detectable via satellite data.