In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun. By Robin George Andrews Astronomers on Wednesday ...

Will Bailey couldn’t wait to get back to Dubai. The 26-year-old fitness coach and influencer from Manchester, England, was preparing to launch a new business in the city and had posted a series of ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a young star just 120 light years away engaging in what is an aptly childish pastime: blowing a bubble. The bubble, of course, is not ...

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This normally indicates a period of greatly reduced solar activity, but it's still too ...

The last time the sun's face was perfectly spotless was on June 8, 2022, more than 1,355 days earlier. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun’s power for a rainy day — or a cold night. Chemists at UC Santa Barbara have ...

The Infinity One stellarator, a magnetic confinement machine that is a twisty cousin of the donut-shaped tokamak, is one step closer to construction in Claxton, Tennessee. By 2029, the company hopes ...

“President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control ...

Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the sun unleashed one of its most powerful flares, temporarily disrupted ...