The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

This solar system and universe station is part of the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition that opens Monday, May 5, on the fourth floor of the University of Wyoming’s Science Initiative Building. The ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

The massive "Cosmic Horseshoe" galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our sun — one of the largest ever seen in the universe, a new study finds.

The idea of an asteroid striking the Earth is quite alarming to most of us – after all, it was the impact of a massive asteroid that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as 75% of the ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...