The search for planets beyond our solar system has taken an exciting leap forward, thanks to advancements in space missions ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

Now, the time has come for Parker’s closest and final flybys ... The spacecraft came so close to our star that if the distance between Earth and the sun were the length of an American football ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history today by flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere ... learn more about Earth’s closest star. “No human-made object has ever passed ...

The Sun sometimes coughs up solar flares, which occur when the star’s magnetic field twists and sends a burst of energy and ...

A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and ...