"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

If the Sun is a blazing ball of fire radiating unimaginable energy, why is space so dark? Shouldn't it be lit up like daylight everywhere? It’s one of the most asked questions in science,and the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

THE universe will start to shrink in just 7billion years, a new study has claimed, upending the prediction that space is ever ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Newly-released photos capture the sun in highest resolution ever, space agency says The Solar Orbiter, which launched in February 2020, imaged the sun's surface from less than 46 million miles ...

The sun’s flurry of outbursts, coming after years of relative quiet and calm, is a sure sign that the star has entered a busy phase of its natural cycle, according to experts: solar maximum.

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

THE famously desolate Mars landscape could be scattered with trees to the untrained eye, according to a recently shared Nasa ...

New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) shows the month of August saw an average of 215.5 daily dark spots on the surface ...

The Sun and Earth’s atmosphere destroy fragile, carbon-rich meteoroids before impact, ... These are dark, soft space rocks filled with carbon and other essential elements.

A plume of "dark plasma" is heading toward Earth after being burped out by the sun. This coronal mass ejection (CME) was flung out from a long magnetic filament on the sun's surface and is set to ...