The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals new insights into the triggering mechanisms of solar ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a fascinating world that is unique among moons of the outer solar system. It's shrouded in a ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

‘Clar’s goblet is a bowtie-shaped [structure] first proposed by Erich Clar in 1972,’ explains lead author Jishan Wu, from the National University of Singapore. ‘It’s characterised by the presence of ...

Genetics does not get much of a look-in when it comes to the social sciences. That is a legacy from the dark days of eugenics, when researchers like Francis Galton thought genius was hereditary ...

A newly released video has revealed a gigantic plume of solar wind towering above the sun in a never ... long as the sun is wide and lasted for around three hours. The "helix" structure of the wind ...

They generate electricity by jiggling. The structure of these bladeless turbines works by attracting whirlwinds. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, these whirlwinds develop at certain ...