Researchers who spent time plotting the orbits of 40,000 M-Type Red Dwarf stars for the next billion years have discovered that there is an infinitely small chance that one of eighteen specific stars they tracked could one day pass dangerously close to Earth.

Three Coronal Mass Ejections that were spawned by the recent X-Class solar flare are expected to impact Earth between February 16th-18th, which should provide some people with a heck of a light show.

NASA and other scientists believe that they have found a new planet on the edge of the solar system, inside the Oort asteroid cloud.

The Sun has generated the first X-Class solar flare of Solar Cycle 24. While this will be an opportunity to test the radiation resistance of our satellites, for us on Earth it simply means that we could be treated to a showing of Northern Lights.

While humanity may strive to explore deep space, concerns about solar radiation may make it impossible for humans to explore beyond Mars.

A normal, cyclical change in continental air pressure gradients has the world turned upside-down.

The godlike vision granted by our far-flung sensors.

A Data-viz lab headquartered in the "mythical birthplace of HAL 9000" produces both eye-popping IMAX animations and rigorous modelings of scientific data. In fact, these things are one and the same. Video after the jump.

Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms�cooperative amoeba.

Wasteful predation might not be a mistake for the occasionally post-coitally cannibalistic black widow spider. Instead, having extra food around may help put a skittish potential mate's fears to rest.