The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries, from the ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Eileen West has a strange object in her home in Aberdeenshire - a scale model of a huge electricity pylon, built as part of a ...