NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s ...

Pentagon Pentagon officials suggest alien mothership in our solar system could send mini probes to Earth New research paper, in draft form, comes from the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution ...

Explore the possibility of a second Earth-like planet within our own solar system. Reservoir levels falling as drought warnings issued Trump executive order to turn LA into housing center for up ...

For now, the outer reaches of our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system continue to be shrouded in mystery, with the classification of objects changing as scientists gain a new understanding of them ...

Our solar system was long considered a template for all planetary systems. In the last 25 years, however, it has quickly and firmly become an outlier for lacking its own super-Earth. NASA's ...

The quest to find hidden worlds. Searching for planets lurking in the frigid edges of our solar system is not a new concept. The so-called Planet Nine, a world 10 times more massive than Earth, is ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist. Now, scientists have found a total of 14 of them.

In fact, our planet is something of a geological oddball given what we know about our solar system neighbors. Granite isn’t the only rock that’s ordinary on Earth but rare on other worlds.

Dark Comets In Our Solar System Could Explain Earth’s Oceans — And So Much More The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. by Darryl Z ...

The 4,096 by 4,096 sensor gives the AIA a resolution of 0.6 arcseconds per pixel, and the optics allow imaging out to almost 1.3 solar radii, to capture fine detail in the thin solar atmosphere.