February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form of solar threat, though this is not addressed here. A long filament erupted on the Sun on 31 August 2012 and was imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Earth is a constantly bombarded not just...
14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
... unaided eye. Despite being nearly twice as old as the Sun, the star is surprisingly speedy for its age. Calculations of...E. E. Barnard, found that its total velocity with respect to the Sun is a whopping 500, 000 kilometres an hour. This means Barnard...
29 January 2020
Material older than the Sun found unexpectedly where it shouldn't be
... know they originated from earlier stars before our Sun was born, because the elements inside them have...not survive intact and unchanged near the scorching temperatures near the Sun, so researchers expect to find them either in fine-grained material...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... largest mysteries about our star, including finding out why the sun’s corona is so much hotter than its surface. And we’re...With a Star program that is intended to explore aspects of the sun-Earth system, is currently on track for a launch that can ...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
... is a little bit hotter and a little bit more massive than our Sun and is located 2, 545 light years away. The newly discovered planet –... closer to their central star than the Earth is to the Sun. Because Kepler-90i orbits so close to its host star, ...
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
...67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at its closest approach to the sun have just been published by the European Space ...perihelion (the point in their orbit at which they are closest to the sun), and for the first time ever, humanity has virtually a front row ...
