NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was expected to come within 130 million miles of the sun on Oct. 30. For the time being, 3I/ATLAS will remain on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, making it impossible to observe ...

The year 2026 would begin with a full moon, also a supermoon, and Earth’s closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. It indicated that the Earth, moon, and sun would be very closely aligned, ...

It’s doing a Sun run. Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS — which scientists suspect could have extraterrestrial origins — will reach its closest approach to the Sun on October 30. While ATLAS doesn’t ...

Astronomers observed a massive, multi-temperature plasma eruption from a young Sun-like star, revealing how early solar explosions could shape planets. These fierce events may have influenced the ...

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Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...