Solar Orbiter has captured the sun in the highest-resolution images yet, revealing its surface, magnetic field, and corona ...

The new season's forecast is frightening, and we should all take a cue from Sagittarius on how to respond. Read our queer ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. It is the closest to the Sun and has extreme temperature changes between day and night. Tap to read in detail.

The Parker Solar Probe, which is about the size of a small car, launched in 2018 on a daring mission to "touch" the sun. Scientists were hoping that it'd decode some of the hottest mysteries about ...

While that sounds like a huge distance, it is actually very close on a solar system scale: The closest planet to the sun, Mercury, orbits at about 41 million miles away. The previous record was ...

The most important aspect is Dec. 5, when a moonwalking Mercury meets with the sun in a connection known as a Mercury cazimi. This brings clarity during an otherwise confusing retrograde ...

The sun erupted with an X2.3-class solar flare this morning, triggering radio blackouts The X-class solar flare was released from a sunspot region AR 3883 at 8:40 a.m. ET (1340 UTC) on Wednesday ...

Sun Tower was built to help fill this gap. The “Phenomena Space” looks out to the water. (Iwan Baan/Courtesy OPEN Architecture) The dramatic voids OPEN Architecture carved away from the ...

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted (Dec. 6, 2010) with a flourish. On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth, making a transit of the Sun.

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. Located in Yantai ...

It will be the closest any human made object has been to the Sun. Parker’s Venus flybys have become boons for new Venus science thanks to a chance discovery from its Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar ...