Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

If the sun suddenly went out, Earth would freeze, life would perish, and the solar system would unravel, but humanity might have left long before that day ...

Despite being the brightest and largest thing around, the Sun still holds quite a few mysteries for scientists. One of those includes its “heartbeat”, periodic signals released by our Solar System’s ...

An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are ...

The universe is vast, and even within a mere 50 light-years of Earth lies a stunning variety of stars that defy imagination. This relatively small region of our cosmic neighborhood hosts over 1,400 ...

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun.

Although the collapse of the leading solar financing company has not slowed the progress of the renewable energy sector, ...

Collectively, municipalities owe Eskom just shy of R100 billion, and in return, municipalities collectively are owed by their customers upwards of R400 billion,’ says the Minister of Electricity.

The Sun is a massive ball of hot gases at the center of our solar system. It gives us light, heat, and energy, making life on Earth possible. It's mostly made of hydrogen and helium.

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...