The obvious way to fire someone into the Sun is the direct approach, as shown in South Park Season 1. Point a rocket at the Sun and fire. But can that work?

In addition to being the third consecutive supermoon of the year, as reported by EarthSky, it will be about 357,000 km away from us, making it the second-closest full Moon of the year. Consequently it ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers (168 ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

Make sure your angles are in units of radians (not degrees), where 2π radians = 360 degrees. But after that you will get the ...

This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

There's been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS—much of which is probably caused by ...

Eyes to the sky this week to see the Full Cold Supermoon, which is last Full Moon of 2025 and the highest Full Moon of the ...

The sun’s gravity would be pulling the moon away from Earth on November 20, 2025, at a distance that it had never been in the last five years.

December's Cold Moon always climbs higher in the sky than any other full moon of the year. As the winter solstice nears, the ...