On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the planet's atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region. The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR4046 and was ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

A high-velocity solar storm, triggered by the Sun’s most powerful eruption of the year, is currently interacting with Earth’s magnetic field. Space weather experts have warned about potential G4-class ...

A curious Calgarian took to Reddit to share that an entire model of the solar system appeared downtown near the Saddledome.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...