Space Stories

The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity known as solar cycles, each lasting about 11 years. The most energetic phase of this cycle is called solar maximum, or peak…

The idea of an asteroid striking Earth may sound like science fiction, but it’s a real possibility. In fact, Earth has been hit by large asteroids before — the most…

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside of our Solar System. These distant worlds range from giant gas planets like Jupiter to rocky Earth-like planets, and they have revolutionized our…

We live inside a vast, spinning collection of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter called the Milky Way Galaxy. It stretches over 100,000 light-years in diameter, contains hundreds of billions…

The Asteroid Belt is a vast ring of rocky bodies orbiting the Sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. It contains millions of asteroids — remnants from the early solar…

Far beyond the orbit of Pluto, past the Kuiper Belt and the known planets, lies a hypothetical and invisible region believed to be the outermost boundary of our solar system…

The Kepler Belt, more accurately known as the Kuiper Belt, is a vast region of icy objects orbiting the Sun beyond the planet Neptune. Often described as the "third zone"…

Asteroids and meteorites are rocky fragments from space that offer a window into the early history of the Solar System. While they are often confused or used interchangeably, these cosmic…