NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a partial solar eclipse. See its view in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | ...

After a lifetime of helping others see eclipses, Fred Espenak recently announced he is in hospice care for a chronic lung ...

A story that begins with three animals riding in a balloon ends with the discovery of protons impacting our atmosphere with ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...

A geomagnetic storm unleashed by the sun on Sunday could create colorful auroral displays over parts of the United States ...

Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak announced ... legacy is the five millennia of solar eclipses (2000 BCE to 3000 CE) detailed on NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's website. Information about ...

and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. When the solar system was forming, Jupi­ter’s gravity prevented nearby planetesimals from coalescing.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

And in the past decade, more than 20 spacecraft have ventured into the deepest reaches of our solar system. These probes, unlike the Hubble Space Telescope ... during a solar eclipse on July ...

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Statue of Maharana Pratap, the 16th century ruler of Mewar, will be inaugurated at 5 pm in Cannought Place area of CIDCO ...

"The next set of solar cycles will be more active." Space weather may intensify in the coming decades with more frequent solar flares and eruptions to batter the planet. Whilst Earth's technology ...