Since early this year, skywatchers on Earth have been tracking Comet Leonard, a kilometer-wide dirty snowball made of ice, rock…
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus last week, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet.…
When Longfellow wrote about “ships passing in the night” back in 1863, he probably wasn’t thinking about satellites passing near…
A deep-space mission is about to pull a ‘vanishing act,’ through mid-February, as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (affectionately…
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is heading towards the center of the Solar System, with the goal of capturing the closest…
While actually walking on the sun is still just a dream of Smash Mouth fans, humanity has gotten a little…
I forget the Sun is a star. I think we all do sometimes. It’s easy to take for granted. The…
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data…
The ESA's Solar Orbiter launched earlier today on its five-year mission to study the Sun, which scientists hope will lead…
Two upcoming missions - NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the ESA's Solar Orbiter - will get closer to the Sun…