A widely shared post on social media said China would be installing a lot of wind and solar power if the technologies “were the answer”. The post claimed: “If wind and solar power were the answer, ...

Our solar system resides inside a vast cavity, now known as the Local Bubble, which is about 1,000 light-years across. The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas that surrounds ...

As space agencies and private companies look toward sending human crews to Mars, they'll have to find ways to mitigate the dangers posed by high-energy radiation from solar storms. The weather on ...

Voyagers 1 and 2 are on a one-way trip, sent forth to study the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. In 2012, Voyager 1 started sending home readings indicating that it had ...

All is quiet in these cold, silvery-blue moments, until the Moon lines up perfectly with the Sun from our viewpoint on Earth – an odd quirk of the Moon–Earth system, and an occurrence that does not ...