It traces historical discoveries from ancient sun understandings to modern solar magnetism and its impact on Earth, like the ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

As if searching for dark matter isn't difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a ...

Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...

Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the ...

One of very few things in this life that we can bank on happening every single day: the sun rises in the east and sets in the ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

NOAA's new Compact Coronagraph, CCOR-1, onboard the GOES-19 satellite, has begun transmitting its first images, revealing ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...