NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

On Feb. 27, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA plans to launch the sun-studying PUNCH mission to low Earth orbit. It will ride alongside the agency's SPHEREx observatory, which is sort of like ...

Since the asteroid YR4 was first discovered in December 2024, the odds that it could crash into earth have more than doubled.

PUNCH's main goal is to study how the Sun's corona transforms into solar wind, a stream of charged particles that flows ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

This week, NASA published images of a comet surging a close path to the sun and a few epic 'post cards from the planets taken by NASA’s robotic explorers. NASA caught images from the comet C ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nasa is preparing to launch a groundbreaking mission to solve some of the biggest mysteries of the Sun and its impact on the solar system. The US space agency announced details of the PUNCH ...

Nasa is preparing to launch a groundbreaking mission to solve some of the biggest mysteries of the Sun and its impact on the solar system. The US space agency announced details of the PUNCH ...