As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

The sun's solar weather has caused several atmospheric events since the star entered its maximum phase. See the sun's effect.

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings ... only about 30% of Earth's equatorial surface was solid ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The new season's forecast is frightening, and we should all take a cue from Sagittarius on how to respond. Read our queer ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...