An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

American Artist Magazine credited the technique of Time’s covers as having “created a sensation … and set a style” — at once recognizably realistic and three-dimensional.

Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

“When the sun is at its minimum, you have a north pole and a south pole, each with its own magnetic polarity,” said Anik De Groof, Solar Orbiter’s mission manager.

“When the sun is at its minimum, you have a north pole and a south pole, each with its own magnetic polarity,” Anik De Groof, Solar Orbiter’s mission manager, tells the New York Times ...