The holiday season is a busy time for humankind’s sun-surfing spacecraft. This Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will be ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern ...

During periods of intense space weather, the sun can unleash giant solar flares and streams of charged particles, known as ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...

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