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The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

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Launched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is gradually tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

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As 2025 begins, you can easily spot four planets in the evening sky. Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars all shine brightly every ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...