Over the years, I have featured many articles about our sun, including sunspots, solar flares, cycles and its activity. Last week was a landmark occasion for NASA as a sophisticated solar probe ...

As technological societies advance, their energy demands skyrocket, pushing them up the Kardashev scale. While fossil fuels, ...

Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

The well in Mali is nearly 100% pure hydrogen. But hydrogen is often colocated with other gasses, including helium. Australian company Gold Hydrogen, for example, said it found hydrogen as well as ...

The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

Astronomers have accidently spotted a new type of cosmic explosion called a "millinova" triggered by white dwarfs feeding on ...

Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

Fusion is the end-goal of terrestrial energy generation on Earth. By fusing together plasma of two light nuclei (in this ...

Almost 300 binary mergers have been detected so far, indicated by their passing gravitational waves. These measurements from ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Stars appear to twinkle because of Earth’s atmosphere. The air bends and scatters the light as it travels to your eyes, making the star’s brightness seem to change. If you were in space, stars would ...