Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has ...

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The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.

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Political satire has its place … and its limits. So Dave Granlund’s recent cartoon about the history of Time magazine’s “Person of Year” recipients radically exceeded those limits ...

These annual changes in sunlight as the Earth revolves around the sun have been well known to humans for centuries. Monuments such as Stonehenge in England and the Torreon at Peru’s Machu Picchu ...

Mod Sun broke his silence on his relationship with Love Is Blind’s Brittany Wisniewski. “Things are great,” Mod Sun, 37, told TMZ on Wednesday, December 18, while spotted with Wisniewski ...

Here’s how it works. The sun is far from quiet. Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.