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November 11, 2019

Mercury transit 2019: What to know

Mercury may be in retrograde, but an even rarer celestial occurrence is occurring today will when the first planet in the Solar System passes across the Sun, an event known as Mercury Transit.

August 21, 2019

Dark 'half-magnets' from the Sun could be streaming through us every day

An invisible substance permeates the universe, altering the paths of stars and galaxies.

August 19, 2019

Unusual 'fire cloud' caught on camera over Washington State

NASA has captured an eerie and rare image of a ‘fire cloud’ caused by a wildfire in eastern Washington State.

August 6, 2019

Gigantic black hole with mass 40 billion times the Sun discovered by astronomers

Astronomers have potentially discovered a supermassive black hole located 700 million light years from Earth that has a mass 40 billion times that of the Sun.

August 1, 2019

Sun's scorching hot, spiraling wind re-created in a lab

Scientists have replicated mini gusts of solar wind in the lab as a way to potentially unravel some of the Sun's mysteries.

July 25, 2019

Scientists discover 'plasma tsunamis' are responsible for sunspots

Rolling waves of plasma known as "solar tsunamis" could be causing the sudden end of solar cycles, according to scientists.

July 10, 2019

Massive, kilometer-sized asteroid was just found orbiting the Sun

A newly-found asteroid has been spotted orbiting the Sun, whizzing past the star every 151 days, the shortest orbit of any space rock on record.

July 2, 2019

Solar Eclipse set to cut a path across South America, plunging parts of the continent into darkness

A stunning total solar eclipse will plunge a swath of South America into darkness Tuesday in the world’s first total solar eclipse since 2017.

June 28, 2019

Total solar eclipse will plunge parts of South America into darkness

A swath of South America is set to enjoy a total solar eclipse.

June 12, 2019

Sun could unleash violent 'superflare' in the next century, researchers warn

Earth's aging sun could produce a massive superflare in the coming century.