For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

TIM:When I was up on the ISS, that different perspective really brought home the sheer scale of the universe. The vastness of our Solar System and the distances involved is something that's hard ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

and deform large-scale objects and orbital paths. That said, the inner Oort cloud is affected by these galactic tides as well, albeit over a much longer time frame—like, age-of-the-Solar-System long. ...

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

While rooftop solar panels are common throughout the Bay Area, this would be the first solar energy and storage infrastructure built on the Peninsula. Photo by Sana Dadani. This story was written ...

leading to the establishment of a continental-scale prototype Antarctic ice sheet configuration. While the study raises the possibility of a link between the past traverse of the solar system ...

and deform large-scale objects and orbital paths. That said, the inner Oort cloud is affected by these galactic tides as well, albeit over a much longer time frame—like, age-of-the-Solar-System ...