Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

A year ago this weekend, the sun’s activity created some of the most spectacular auroras on record, with displays visible as ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ... a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore ...

The Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is more likely to have flares and coronal mass ejections, to the minimum ...

The Sun is the most important star in the entire Solar System, as it is not only the gravitational force around which all other objects within it rotate, but it accounts for 99.8% ...