July 26, 2016 How many suns can a planet have? A strange alien world with three suns in its sky has just
June 6, 2016 19th-century White House garden aligns with solstice sun A 19th-century garden just north of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C., was designed so that its statues align with the rising and setting sun on the summer and winter solstices, a physics professor has found
May 24, 2016 Superflares from the Sun may have sparked life by warming Earth Life on Earth may owe its existence to incredibly powerful storms that erupted on the sun long ago, a new study suggests.
May 9, 2016 Mercury transit of the Sun on May 9: How to see it and what to expect On Monday (May 9), you will have an opportunity to witness one of the rarest astronomical events: a transit of Mercury across the face of the sun.
May 2, 2016 Pluto, Mars water and more! The biggest space stories of 2015 The year that was 2015 swept in a significant amount of space and astronomy science.
May 2, 2016 The active Sun: US unveils plan to deal with space weather The U.S. government is getting more serious about dealing with the dangers posed by powerful sun storms.
May 2, 2016 Giant 'hole' in Sun is 50 Earths wide The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer of the sun and its magnetic field, the size of 50 Earths, is letting loose an ultrafast solar wind that has kicked off several nights of auroras down on Earth.
May 2, 2016 SolarCity will make its most sophisticated rooftop solar panel in the US – not China SolarCity, co-founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is bucking a trend by bringing production of its most-cutting-edge solar panels to the U.S.
May 2, 2016 UK gov't: Earth will only have 12-hour warning to deal with massive Sun explosion It sounds like a scene from a disaster movie – mass power failures, plane crashes, satellite disruptions, and train derailments. These are some of the threats modern society would face in the case of a massive solar storm, according to a new document released by the U.K. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
May 2, 2016 LightSail spacecraft snaps solar sail selfie in space The Planetary Society's tiny LightSail spacecraft has sent a photo of its deployed solar sail down to Earth, confirming that the cubesat's shakeout flight has been a complete success.
