Late on Oct. 21, 2025, a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the far side of the sun, an area currently dominated by the powerful and persistent Active Region 4246. The eruption ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona reaches temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius, while the surface ...

An eighty-year scientific quest has culminated in a breakthrough discovery that could finally solve the decades-old mystery of why the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is drastically hotter than ...

The last in a series of three coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Wednesday, so experts are keeping an eye on geomagnetic ...

Skydiver and friend of McCarthy, Gabe Brown, can be seen falling across the face of the sun in the new photograph, which the ...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

A Japanese travel agency said Tuesday it plans to launch a high-speed space transport service in the 2030s that could connect Tokyo and U.S. cities such as New York in just 60 minutes. Civilian space ...

The Story Of The Cluster Mission is about the European Space Agency and their 24-year-long study of space plasma ...

UPDATE: A fifth house fell into the waves on Oct. 28 on Tower Circle Road in Buxton around 4:30 p.m., according to the National Park Service. The updated story continues below. Waves battering the ...

Fifteen Outer Banks homes collapsed since mid-September, prompting retreat. Beach nourishment costs millions and only delays erosion, not permanent protection. Experts urge buyouts, insurance reform ...

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