In the sun’s midday glare, a white cumulus cloud bounces light off its surface, cooling its interior. But in infrared ...

The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22 ...

The launch carried with it few instruments to help observe the Sun at historically close quarters. Key among these are the ...

We — as well as the planets — are all over the place. Mars is making an unusual quincunx to mystical Neptune, causing our ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

Summer may have been and gone but the Sun is shining brightly in one part of Plymouth - or, rather, a giant sculpture of our ...

Astronomers explain that the Sun looks darkened during a partial eclipse because the Moon essentially "bites" into it. The degree of darkness depends on how much of the Sun’s surface is obscured from ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...