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Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any other day in 2026 on Jan. 3, as our planet reaches its closest point to our ...

As the year gets underway, something important happens quietly in space while life on Earth carries on as usual. Our planet ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

The Baltimore Sun considered a few outstanding scenarios that raise the question: can humanity survive long enough to figure out an escape plan for the death of our star? Will the human race be ...

This phenomenon is entirely natural and has no negative effects on the inhabitants of the planet, contrary to claims made by ...

You do not usually notice oxygen unless it is missing. It is just there when you wake up, when you step outside, when you ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

Earth is facing a double coronal mass ejection impact today, January 3, 2026, potentially triggering G2-class geomagnetic ...