The moon and sun figure big in the new year's lineup of cosmic wonders
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.
Space Exploration
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Sun-watcher SOHO celebrates 30 years
On 2 December 1995, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space—on what was supposed to be a two-year mission.
Astronomy
Dec 2, 2025
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Solar flares may be 6.5 times hotter than previously thought
New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought. The research provides an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old mystery about our nearest ...
Astronomy
Sep 3, 2025
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Earth-size stars and alien oceans: An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs
The sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the sun is often thought of as the end of the solar ...
Astrobiology
Aug 28, 2025
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Influence of the planets may subdue solar activity
Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 12, 2025
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The summer solstice is here. What to know about the longest day of the year
Peak sunshine has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere—the summer solstice.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 20, 2025
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Will Europa become a habitable world when the sun becomes a red giant?
People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost certainly spell the end of life ...
Planetary Sciences
May 28, 2025
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Is this the first hint of Planet Nine?
The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like Pluto, dozens of moons, and ...
Astronomy
Apr 30, 2025
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The sun's natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought
Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2025
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The most metal-poor stars are living fossils from the beginning of the universe
Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the early moments of the universe. But our star is also rich in other elements astronomers call metals: ...
Astronomy
Apr 17, 2025
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