A giant comet found far out in the solar system may be 1,000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it potentially the largest ever found in modern times.
The object, officially designated a comet on June 23,...
NASA has discovered a "weird" planet with striking similarities to Earth.
Researchers from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of New Mexico discovered exoplanet TOI-1231 b orbiting an M dwarf star. The planet is located...
A slow-moving fireball lit up the night sky over Andalucía, Spain, at 21:33 UTC (23:33 LT) on Monday, June 14, 2021. The spectacular event was mostly witnessed in the provinces of Sevilla, Malaga, and Cadiz. According...
The Sun is one of the big reasons why we’re all here today. Without it, life likely wouldn’t have taken root on Earth — or, at the very least, the type of life that covers...
Solar activity refers to the state of the sun’s magnetic field and associated phenomena: sunspots, flares, solar wind and coronal ejections. During periods of minimal solar activity, such events are often uncommon and weak. During solar maximum,...
Earth will have some relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Five asteroids will make an approach to earth, one of them is...
If you keep up with celestial events, you may already know that there’s more than one type of eclipse. North America won’t get another total solar eclipse until May 2022, but on June 10, 2021,...
An "erupting filament of magnetism" has been spewed into the solar system by the Sun at 328 kilometres per second, and it could collide with Earth. The solar storm has been caused by a swirling pool of...
On April 25, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted a burst of fire coming from the Sun. In the video, a blast of magnetic filament can be seen booming through the atmosphere of the Sun,...
Sunspot AR2816 erupted during the late hours of April 19th (2342 UT), producing a strong M1-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. This is one of the strongest flares of...