Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

The Lewiston Town Board approved site plans for Citrine Solar’s proposed facility in a former town landfill. The approval was contingent on a host agreement that still has to be worked out and an ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view.

An Ugly Duckling Boeing developed the X-32 as a technology demonstrator for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition. The JSF contract, of course, went to the Lockheed Martin X-35, which has ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

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Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth. AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...