In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can trigger geomagnetic storms on Earth that cause brilliant auroras, disrupt satellites and communication systems, interfere with GPS accuracy, and potentially damage ...

The Earth, along with our entire solar system, is not stationary. It is in constant motion, traveling through space at incredible speeds. What if we told you that right now, you’re moving 640 times ...

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

NASA has released remarkable video captured during the Parker Solar Probe's record-breaking 2024 flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever recorded.

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists. Parker was launched in 2018 and is named ...

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from ...

Mercury stands stationary at 3 A.M. EDT amid the stars of Cancer. The solar system's smallest planet will now start sliding westward, or retrograde, appearing to "fall" back toward the Sun as it moves ...

In a rare cosmic moment, the sun positioned itself directly above the Kaaba in Mecca on Tuesday. For Muslims around the world ...