Astronomers spot super-Earth circling a star 83 light-years away
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new exoplanet discovered in observations from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away
Rendering of the planetary collision astronomers suspect occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis Astronomers have…
How to witness Venus and Saturn conjunction?
Footage released by NASA on Wednesday reveals aurora ribbons shimmering above Earth, while a thin orange line of…
What to know about Elon Musk’s merger of SpaceX with his AI company
Elon Musk recently announced what seemed like an odd pairing of his companies: SpaceX was acquiring xAI, the…
Magnetic Avalanches Ignite Solar Flares, New Solar Orbiter Observations Reveal
New high-resolution observations by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission show that solar flares are driven by cascading magnetic reconnection…
how Earth’s final days will unfold, according to science
The Sun will one day swell into a red giant, turning Earth into a dry, lifeless world. Belén…
Lights out: can dimming the sun really save us from global warming?
Enter solar geoengineering, the unlikely frontrunner in the fight against rising global temperatures. Solar geoengineering, or solar radiation…
The Sun Survived a Close Call With 2 Massive Stars 4.4 Million Years Ago, Data Shows
In the early 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope picked up something odd in the local clouds that surround…
The Longest Solar Eclipse for 100 Years Is Coming. Don’t Miss It
The duration of a total solar eclipse always varies. In April 2024, the eclipse that crossed North America…
Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates thirty years
Science & Exploration 02/12/2025 629 views 18 likes On 2 December 1995 the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space –…
First-ever images of powerful X1.3-class solar flare captured by solar telescope
From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some…