Earth" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

A newly compiled dataset of nearly one billion images of auroras is helping researchers categorize—and perhaps ultimately ...

This Sunday, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is ...

so if I put the Sun and the Earth one metre apart, Parker Solar Probe is four centimetres from the Sun - so that's close." The probe will have to endure temperatures of 1,400C and radiation that ...

The sun's warming rays make life possible on Earth. But severe solar storms can temporarily scramble radio communications and disrupt power. The sun is currently at the maximum phase of its 11 ...

NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating ...

"We are 93 million miles away from the Sun, so if I put the Sun and the Earth one metre apart, Parker Solar Probe is 4cm from the Sun - so that's close." The probe endured temperatures of 1,400C ...

Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a beacon back to Earth indicating that it remains in good health and is operating as expected ...

flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star. The agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied ...

The task at hand is to demonstrate the feasibility of harnessing nuclear fusion - the same reaction powering our Sun and stars - at ... Meanwhile, here on Earth, two main methods are being ...

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity ... solar activity once again triggered a strong geomagnetic storm at Earth, offering another widespread display of low-latitude aurora.