New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.

From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.

From GPS glitches to blackouts, solar storms are a growing threat to our wired lives. Now, IBM and NASA think they have a new defence — a powerful AI model named Surya.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as the International Space Station. Here's how to use it.

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

First-of-its-kind AI can predict violent solar flares hours before they erupt, scientists say AI system sets benchmark in use of AI for space weather prediction ...

The new open-source AI model, Surya, is trained on nine years of satellite imagery data and can accurately predict the sun's activity up to two hours into the future. It's 16% more effective than ...

Known as plug-in or balcony solar, these small-scale systems are already popular in Europe.

Solar system coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

DAN WANG is a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to ...