This video explored where NASA believed extraterrestrial life was most likely to exist beyond Mars. It showed how icy moons ...

The Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — is behaving in ways that are raising alarms among scientists. With NASA’s ...

Solar panels keep generating electricity throughout winter – but how much can you realistically expect in the UK?

Ministers have expressed their opposition to efforts to reflect more of the sun ’s rays back into space, noting they are “not in favour”. Commons Leader Sir Alan Campbell warned that solar radiation ...

You can use multiple light sources to charge solar lights, but they work best with sunlight, so it's almost always better to leave them out in the sun. They use the same technology as solar panels, ...

The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has erupted again. On Friday the sun released a powerful, X4.0-class solar ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University suggests that if it weren't for the gas giant, the Earth would have ...

A Harvard astronomer is making waves by suggesting that a massive interstellar object hurtling through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft. Professor Avi Loeb, who also serves as director of ...

Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth again—before it leaves our solar system. While the comet—first spotted in July—has ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an outgoing path — but it’s not leaving our cosmic neighborhood yet. The comet, ...

Earlier this month, the comet passed within 12 miles of Mars, giving NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter a chance to capture its closest photos yet. Those images have not been ...