A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

the rising of the full moon also put our natural satellite in the perfect celestial position to eclipse the sun on Saturday, October 14 as a rare annular “ring of fire” solar eclipse comes to ...

ForbesToday’s New Moon Sets Up A ... of central solar eclipses: total and annular. During an annular eclipse, the sun's center is partially blocked, creating a visible ring around the moon.

A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by Vikings as solar compasses to navigate ...

These findings suggest that the reason we see no moon rings in the Solar System is because we just weren't in the right place at the right time. Radiation pressure from the Sun, magnetic fields ...

On Christmas Eve, 2024, NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun's atmosphere than any ... of withstanding temperatures of up to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit (1,400 °C).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ... million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976. In 2021, the probe followed that up by becoming the first ...

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.