The sun may seem like a giant fireball, but is it really on fire? Let's first talk about what fire is. According to the National Fire Protection Association, you need three things for a fire to ...

This month's full moon reaches peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. EDT (17:56 GMT) and is known as the 'Flower Moon' to some in ...

For skywatchers in the northeastern U.S. and Canada this week, it will appear as though the moon took a bite out of the sun. The eclipse will occur in the early hours of Saturday, March 29, ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is ...

Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans. A NASA spacecraft is about to give astronomers an epic early Christmas present with the closest ...

On Tuesday, astronomers watched in amazement as a vast 'bird wing' solar eruption tore away from the sun's surface. At 600,000 miles long (one million km), a direct hit from this filament of ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...