The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface. The ...

NASA has had incredible success with its solar missions. On December 14, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first ...

Since 2007, Bill Gates has funded research initiatives that, in part, provide grants for experiments related to solar radiation management — a form of geoengineering controversially proposed as a last ...

Can a Hail Mary to stave off climate change by dimming the Sun work? Scientists in the UK are poised to find out. The Telegraph reports that the British government is expected to greenlight a bevy of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes, and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, and the results provide the strongest constraints ...

A solar eclipse is not just a spectacular cosmic sight and a massive temporary tourist attraction. It's also a great chance to advance human knowledge. And you can help. Thousands of amateur "citizen ...

When a total solar eclipse creates a spectacle in the skies over Mexico and North America on April 8, it will mark the first time such an event has occurred in this part of the world for nearly seven ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South ...

When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the ...

The U.K. government's reported plans to allow experiments that could "dim the sun" has sparked comparisons to apocalyptic action film plots and villainous schemes cooked up by cartoon characters.