The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals new insights into the triggering mechanisms of solar ...

Space weather may intensify in the coming decades with more frequent solar flares and eruptions to batter the planet. Whilst Earth's technology, including satellites and power grids, is likely to feel ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

A team of international researchers has developed a new record-breaking transparent solar cell with an efficiency of 12.3%. The solar cell combines perovskite and organic layers and has a ...