A research team has presented a mechanism that explains how coronal dimmings—darkened, depleted areas on the sun caused by ...

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NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the sun's most complex behaviors. Using data from the suite of ...

Sunday, November 24 Venus lingers long after sunset in the last weeks of the month, now setting nearly three hours after the ...

In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with ...

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On Monday night, the physics and astronomy department brought a broad audience on a journey through space. During one of many ...

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a ...

There were high hopes among astronomy observers that the opportunity to witness Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) also known as the Headless Halloween Comet, traversing the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere ...