The Orionids are thought to be one of the most impressive meteor displays. Visible from early October to early November, it ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us humans, on interstellar ...

The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...

Eruptions at the sun create the most extreme space weather—dense, fast-moving clouds of plasma called coronal mass ejections ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its stellar features with the use of cameras, lenses, telescopes and filters. As we all learn from a young age, the ...

So far, we have identified three. The first one was 1I/’Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, then Comet 2I/Borisov, in 2019. This ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.