Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning ...

What do Stonehenge, Mayan pyramids, and a spacecraft a million miles away have in common? They’re linked by a human need to explore and understand the Sun, moon, planets, and stars. This year’s ...

The sun has burped out bursts of energy called coronal mass ejections that could reach Earth Tuesday night. Forecasters said ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

Heat from the sun affects earthquake activity on Earth, suggests new research. Incorporating solar activity predictions into ...

A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar system is flawed. "They say the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and that it only ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — This April, Oregon will once again find itself in the path of the Moon’s shadow, but only partially. On April 8, a total solar eclipse will cut a path through Texas, Oklahoma, ...

As the Moon becomes the focus of the 21st-century space race, the US military is looking for new technologies to monitor ...