The sun has always loomed large, bringing heat and light and life. In ancient times, it was worshipped as a god; now we revere it as our local blob of...
60 months ago

The Parker Solar Probes is going closer to the sun than NASA has ever been.
59 months ago

TYLER, Texas — US National Weather Service in Shreveport sent out a public service announcement stating not to be alarmed by the bright...
22 months ago

Solar developers like CPR have adopted new analysis/methods to forecast the Aug. 21 partial/total solar eclipse's effects on solar production.
89 months ago

NASA releases an animation video showing then of the known black holes in our Universe and how large they are compared to our solar system.
18 months ago

All stars die, and eventually — in about 5 billion years — our sun will, too. Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted, the final,...
78 months ago

categories:Science, Solar System | tags:Astronomy for Kids, The Sun.
200 months ago

Astronomers have identified what could be the most massive neutron star to date. It's a pulsar, named J0740+6620, and discrepancies in the...
62 months ago

North America plunked on top for a sense of scale. John Brady created this one as part of an in-depth series exploring the scale of the solar system.
121 months ago

Last week's column featured planetary solar distance using toilet paper sheets and another using the planets' positions as seen from high...
64 months ago