Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

The iPhone 16 Pro Max is an excellent shooter for low light, so I tried astrophotography to capture some of my favorite deep ...

Saturn's moon Titan has insulating methane-rich crust up to six miles thick. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 8, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241025122818.htm ...

Since some of those space rocks date back to the very early days of our solar system—and have remained unchanged since their formation—they can provide clues about the environment in which our ...

“This increase in activity provides an exciting opportunity to learn about our closest star − but also causes real effects at Earth and throughout our solar system.” This peak of activity is ...

Brace yourselves, Earthlings: NASA, the NOAA, and the Solar Cycle Prediction Panel have officially declared that solar maximum is now underway. What does that mean? Our Sun is reaching the peak of ...

And sometimes they also violently expel billions of tons of solar particles and magnetic fields, rocketing through the solar system; those are coronal mass ejections. Both phenomena can have an effect ...

For centuries, scientists have been counting sunspots to track this 11-year solar cycle, watching as the Sun transforms from a blank, spotless disk during solar minimum to one freckled with sunspots ...

Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of alien technology in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, the so-called “solar system 2.0 ...