Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The sun unleashed a rare and powerful double eruption this week, sending two massive X-class solar flares from sunspot AR4274 ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...