Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...

Earth could be thrown off its orbit and flung into another planet or the Sun, a new study has warned. Passing stars could be the orchestrator of this cosmic instability which could jeopardise our ...

That will give us limited time to study 3I/ATLAS, but because it has been seen on its way into the solar system, we will at least have more time than with the other interstellar objects.

It currently sits around 420 million miles (or 670 million kilometres) from Earth. Astronomers have since confirmed its ...

NASA's PUNCH mission captures its first images of coronal mass ejections, offering unprecedented views of solar storms across the inner solar system.

The first was ‘Oumuamua, a small, cigar-shaped object that visited our solar system in 2017. Its true nature is still up for debate, though some experts believe it was a comet.

Strongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video) Powerful X-class solar flare erupts from sun, knocking out radio signals ...

One by one, they both hit the "wall of fire" at the boundaries of our home system, measuring temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit) on their passage through it.

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A regular comment we see on electric aircraft is to “just add solar panels to the wings.” [James] from Project Air has been working on just such a solar plane, and as he shows in the video ...

Scientists have released the first striking images from Nasa’s Punch (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which launched in March 2025 to change our understanding of the Sun’s ...

NASA has announced the discovery of a previously unseen planet just outside our solar system, spotted by the powerful James ...