The sun has produced stunning auroras on Earth in recent years as solar activity has peaked—but expect more in coming years ...

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

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...

It has a weight greater than 5,000 times the Sun's weight and is, thus, gigantic. All of this would lead one to expect it would be a rich star-forming region—but curiously enough, it contains no ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner consistent with a large, distant planet.

If you want solar power, you usually have to make a choice. You can put a solar panel in a fixed location and accept that it ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...