Over 4.6 billion years ago, the early Earth emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust encircling the young sun. This ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun, in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star's ...

Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is ...

We explain this extraordinary phenomenon—and why solar flares and coronal mass ejections go together like spots on Dalmatians ...

The sun (including ours) and stars remain alive as long as they have hydrogen fuel burning their core. White dwarfs are ...

Solstice arrives on December 21, 2024. It marks the start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere. India will experience the solstice around 2:30 pm. The Northern ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io in 2024. The extraterrestrial ...

The average rent there surged to $2,047 per square foot, compared with $2,000 per square foot on an 11-block stretch of upper ...

Michael CArayannis and Brent Read review the best and worst of sport from 2024 a year which saw plenty of scandals, sledges and one hell of a party in Sin City.