A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

A new 8K camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife captures images of the Sun's surface in stunning detail.

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...

That’s because it happens to lie directly over the north pole of the Earth, and when you face it — no matter which season or time of night — you’re facing true north. Over the centuries ...

As this video shows, most of the material ejected from the sun was shot out of the northern hemisphere safely away from Earth, which is shown as a blue dot. Juha-Pekka Luntama, head of the space ...

A powerful solar eruption lit up the Sun’s northern hemisphere late on ... scientists have confirmed that this explosion is moving away from Earth and will not disrupt satellites or ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two exoplanets have been detected orbiting the metal-poor, sun-like star HD 35843. HD 35843 c is a sub-Neptune, 2.5 times Earth's radius and 11.3 times its mass ...

Scientists have confirmed Elon Musk’s warning that life on Earth will eventually be destroyed by the sun, with new research pinpointing when that could happen NASA and Tōhō University researchers used ...

After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...