Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads over one of the Sun’s most baffling mysteries: why is its outer ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its surface. A new study led by Northumbria University physicist Richard ...

The sun is taking center stage with recent solar flare activity sparking modest space weather tomorrow, with an added metaphorical selfie as NASA recently released the first-ever images of the sun’s ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...

A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...

Discovered in late June and confirmed by NASA in early July, 3I/ATLAS is believed to have originated in a distant, ancient ...

Solar "raindrops" — plasma streams and vast arches extending outward from the sun's surface and into the corona, the outermost part of the solar atmosphere — have been captured in spectacular new ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment ...