Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1612, Galileo Galilei looked at the sun through a telescope, drew what he saw, and observed that sunspots — dark areas near the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The sun's rotation rate ...

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists describe as solar rotation comes from watching patterns move across a glowing, ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon's rotational period is about 27 days. The sun, it turns out, also ...

I’ve read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

The administration announced a $1.6 billion deal with USA Rare Earth. The firm also does business with Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of President Trump’s commerce secretary. By Ana ...

Amazon is expected to undergo another round of layoffs this week, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, in an effort to trim its workforce by approximately 30,000 employees. This is ...