The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ...

In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these elusive dark comets The solar system is teeming with small bodies such as comets and asteroids.

The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...

He’s designed rooftop solar panels specifically for his Tesla ... When it’s time to drive again, the system can be collapsed into a compact rooftop box in under a minute.

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It wasn’t aliens. But artist impressions of the object (called ‘Oumuamua, the Hawaiian ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

Dark comets could hold crucial information about the origins of life on Earth ... As Farnocchia pointed out, “there could be way more dark comets than we know” in the inner Solar System, which ...

c common functions library extracted from my open source project FastDFS. this library is very simple and stable. functions including: string, logger, chain, hash, socket, ini file reader, base64 ...

Head to Peacock for a non-stop night of men’s college basketball as tonight’s coverage features a quadrupleheader that you won’t want to miss. The excitement tips off at 6:30 PM ET when the DePaul ...

The best telescopes for kids make great Christmas gifts. Our favorite models will provide good, frustration-free night sky views and are perfect for budding skywatchers. If your child is ...