A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

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We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Our solar system formed a mere 4.6 billion years ago ... To understand the implications, imagine, for a moment, that the universe’s 13.8 billion years of history were compressed into a 70 ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.