Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in ...

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new research by Queen's University Belfast has found. Solar flares, which are sudden ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A striking S-shape structure, up to 10 times wider than Earth, emerged on the sun's surface ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur during a new moon phase, usually about twice a year, when the moon ...

The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar activity from affecting the Earth's atmosphere, a new study from Queen's University Belfast as found. The Earth's atmosphere is ...

A massive solar tornado, big enough to swallow the Earth, was observed twirling across the surface of the "quiet" sun last week. Using a telescope made from second hand parts, including part of an old ...

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The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.

This solar system and universe station is part of the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition that opens Monday, May 5, on the fourth floor of the University of Wyoming’s Science Initiative Building. The ...

Skywatchers can catch a rare glimpse of Comet Lemmon this month, and it won't be back until around the year 3175. Here's how ...