Welcome to SolarBalls, where animated content combines entertainment with education about the solar system and the universe.

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog.

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...

NASA is tracking an object that is entering the solar system at approximately 245,000 km/h. This interstellar visitor is 3I/ATLAS, also known as “Comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and initially dubbed A11pl3Z.

3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 billion tons. The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

The mysterious interstellar object traveling through our solar system has been spotted acting like no other comet ever seen before, revealing its alien origins. Scientists from Michigan State ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

NASA's IMAP mission and two other space weather probes took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket today (Sept. 24). SpaceX just sent three space weather probes to the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted ...

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...

Supporters already have won regulatory changes in Utah for so-called balcony solar systems, which provide a small boost of electrical power. Big solar energy projects are getting harder to build.