ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is today at aphelion, the point in its orbit at which ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

"Thanks to Solar Orbiter, we're getting to know our star better than ever." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The joint European ...