July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.” ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Starlink's low Earth orbit satellites zip around the planet at an altitude of around 350 miles -- 60 times closer to the Earth's surface than traditional satellites, per the company's claims -- so ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is actually hotter than the sun’s surface. This is followed by the chromosphere — a ...

A planet far, far away A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was ...

Bright lights, big galaxy In the universe, it's all about location, location, location. Our planet Earth, and our entire solar system and its neighbors reside within the Milky Way. But, not at a ...

While the Sun is by far the largest object in the Solar System, about 1,048 times the mass of Jupiter, gravity doesn’t work one way. Just as Earth pulls on you, you’re also pulling back on ...

Goodbye to our Solar System as we know it: Astronomers confirm there is a new planet orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto Alarm over anomaly detected in South Atlantic related to previously unknown forces ...

The Milky Way’s glowing core dominates June’s skies, arcing overhead in its full glory for those under dark skies. This cosmic backdrop sets the stage for Mars brushing past Regulus, Venus pairing ...

A star system like Jupiter The best way to think about TRAPPIST-1 and its worlds is to compare it to Jupiter and its many moons. Just like Jupiter's moons, the planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 all ...

This could be a vision of what we'd see if we traveled to one of the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, a small, dim star about 235 trillion miles from our home.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History ...