The heightened interest in solar cycles and their potential impact on Earth has been ignited by the looming solar maximum in 2025. This period, characterised by heightened solar activity, has prompted concerns about the vulnerability of today's digital world to devastating solar storms capable of disrupting global communication networks.

Countdown to chaos: Sun nearing solar maximum in 2 years, threatening ‘internet apocalypse’

A fascinating celestial body known as WD0032-317B is pushing the boundaries of astronomers' knowledge regarding the differentiation between stars and planets. This enigmatic object, categorised as a brown dwarf, exhibits extraordinary characteristics that defy conventional expectations.

Hotter than sun, one year lasts just 2.3 hours: The weirdest object in space spotted

NASA's Juno spacecraft is a gift that keeps on giving. Looping around Jupiter - the largest planet in our solar system, Juno recently captured an incredible shot of the greenish glow from a lightning strike inside a swirling vortex near the planet's north pole.

A flash of green: NASA's Juno spacecraft captures image of lightning on Jupiter

A new planet outside the solar system was discovered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, in what can be called as a major success achieved by AI, which has been making headlines these days.

Astronomical intelligence? AI discovers new planet beyond our solar system

A Pentagon official and a Harvard scientist have made a stunning proposition. They have suggested that an alien mothership is present in our solar system, which may be monitoring the earth with tiny probes. Are aliens watching us? How credible is the story? Molly Gambhir reports.

Gravitas: Alien spaceship lurking in our solar system?

Our Solar System’s architecture is quite a bit different than what astronomers see around other stars. Like, Super-Earths are quite common in other star systems, but what if one appears in our solar system?

A Super-Earth will toss us into the Sun or leave us lost in interstellar space?

A recently discovered comet, C/2022 E3 (ZTF), will approach close to the Earth on February 1 and can be visible to the naked eye. The event is considered rare as it has not been witnessed for the past 50,000 years.

Rare comet that was last seen 50,000 years ago to fly past Earth

Our Sun may appear bountiful as it supports all life on Earth. But even it has a limited life-span. About five billion years from now, the fuel within the Sun will be spent and the Sun will start expanding.

A planet spiralling into dying star may tell us about how Earth will be destroyed

Nasa's spacecraft is set to make its very first close encounter with the most volcanic place in the solar system. The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, but it is the first time it will fly by its moon "IO" at such a close distance. Priyanka Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: NASA spacecraft to visit most volcanic world in solar system

Jupiter is not just one massive blob of gas in the Solar System. It's much more than that. Jupiter absorbs many space-rocks travelling towards the inner Solar System, the Earth's neighbourhood.

Tweak in Jupiter's orbit may help life on Earth: Study

In a historic sighting, James Webb Space Telescope captured the first direct image of a planet outside of our solar system. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that it is roughly six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter.

'Transformative moment': James Webb takes direct image of planet outside our solar system

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb and student Amir Siraj have charted a plan to fish out an interstellar meteorite from the seabed of the Pacific Ocean using a giant magnet.

Scientists to fish a meteorite from the depths of Pacific Ocean using giant magnets

We Earth-dwellers have Earth-centric idea of the Universe and that's probably fine. From sunrise to sunset (and beyond), we eat, drink, work and sleep on one single planet.

'Grand Canyon on Mars': ESA clicks Martian feature that's bigger than the original thing

Pluto used to be the most distant planet in our Solar System. Used to be because its status as a planet has been revoked. But that doesn't mean Pluto ceases to amaze us.

NASA posts colourful pic of Pluto, wows netizens

James Webb Space Telescope is humanity's latest eye in the sky. The most powerful telescope ever built by humankind has officially started working and has its sights set on farthest corners of the Universe never seen before.

James Webb telescope clicks Jupiter in its Infrared glory

Most of us think of our Solar system as a nice little cozy cocoon inside which planets are safely embedded and we are doing what we do on Earth with complete safety.

Our Solar System may collapse if a passing star came too close

An enormous comet that is twice the size of Mount Everest has entered the inner part of our solar system and is about to pass through Earth in July. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short, was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope on the outer reaches of the solar system in 2017.

Giant comet twice the size of Mt. Everest heading towards Earth. Here's how you can watch it

There have been several space missions to study how Moon, Marth, Sun and our galaxy were formed, but seldom there are any that have unravelled the mysteries on the origin of the giant planet.

Scientists claim Jupiter became big after eating small planets

In a rare planetary conjunction, five major planets namely, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in our solar system will be visible brightly in a row from Friday.

Rare planetary conjunction: Five planets of solar system to be visible in ‘special’ order from Friday

The discovery was made as a result of the first clear picture of the chemistry beneath the opaque outer atmosphere of the largest planet, according to a study that was published online in the journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Jupiter consumes other planets? What this new research has revealed

A star when alive and kicking, can literally be life-giver in its planetary system. Take for example the Solar System. The Sun created the planetary system, and endowed Earth with life itself.

A dead star is ripping apart its planets in 'cosmic cannibalism'

Forty-five years since its launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been continuing its journey far beyond our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 exited our solar system in 12 years and entered interstellar space in 2012.

NASA’s Voyager 1 sending weird signals from beyond solar system, engineers perplexed

'Are we alone in the universe?' is a question that has puzzled mankind for centuries. But as technological advances took place, search for life was accompanied by another quest.

China wants to find habitable planet near solar system

The Sun has been witnessing heightened activity. It has been constantly emitting several powerful solar flares. But, what are solar flares? Are they harmful for us? Let us find answers to these questions

What are solar flares?

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