See the year’s most striking images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s Mars rover and the best sky ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

These are Starlink satellites reflecting pre-dusk or pre-dawn sunlight off their solar panels. They are only seen from 5 to 18 degrees preceding or trailing the sun. They create bright flashes ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

The 2025 skywatching guide includes a rare sunrise solar eclipse, an occultation of Mars and three supermoons. Here are the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas Eve by completing its closest-ever approach to the Sun, coming within 3.8 ...

The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades of travel. But, as Andrew Griffins writes, thanks to a daring feat of human ingenuity ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.