Feb. 17's annular solar eclipse occurred as the lunar disk slipped between the sun and Earth during its new moon phase. The alignment occurred as the moon travelled through a distant point in its ...

Today (Feb. 17), an annular solar eclipse will commence its journey across a remote region of Antarctica where it will be visible to more penguins than people. The partial solar eclipse portion of the ...

The upcoming annular solar eclipse will be the first since 2024. During the event, the moon's shadow will carve a path 383 miles (616 kilometers) wide and 2,661 miles (4,282 kilometers) long across ...

This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious ...

The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly becoming brighter in infrared light.

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.