New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.

An active region on the Sun, AR1515, has been putting on quite a show over the last 8 days, sending out all sorts of solar flares. Scientists were sure the huge sunspot was building up to produce an X ...

A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid impact. This rare event, occ ...

(CNN) — For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as ...

A rare and severe solar storm has plunged satellites and power grids worldwide into heightened alert as Earth's atmosphere reels from the impact of a powerful geomagnetic disturbance. Following the ...

In the early morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion flattened entire forests in a remote region of Eastern Siberia along the Tunguska River. Curiously, the explosion left no crater, creating a ...

SpaceX/Starlink has confirmed that one of its satellites suffered a major hardware failure in orbit, resulting in the release of debris and a total loss of communications with the vehicle. The errant ...