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Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA probe touches Sun’s atmosphere

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of the University of Arizona and a team of researchers around the world. (Rachel Amaro, University of Arizona)

Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Artistic rendering of the possible view from LHS 3154b towards its low mass host star. Given its large mass, LHS 3154b probably has a Neptune-like composition. (Penn State, CC BY-NC-ND)

Planet discovered is too big for its sun

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Neptune (Getty Images/buradaki/NASA)

Neptune's clouds are disappearing

Matthew Rozsa
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Total Solar Eclipse (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Everything to know about 2024's eclipse

Troy Farah
(NASA)

A gamma-ray burst challenges physics

Eleonora Troja, Simone Dichiara - The Conversation
Asteroid Heading to Planet Earth (Getty Images/ronib1979)

Scientists spot "planet killer" asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a Red Dwarf Star. ( Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The super-Earth next door

Nicole Karlis
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Farmers are changing the local climate

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens
The moon is obscuring part of the sun over flowers during a solar eclipse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Earth's sun is the primary natural source of neutrino emissions detectable on Earth. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Sunspots: a disaster

Alexa Halford, Brett Carter, Julie Currie - The Conversation
Donald Trump points to the sun as he arrives to view the solar eclipse. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

No eclipse glasses for Trump

Alessandra Maldonado
(AP Photo/Irmansyah)

Eclipse of reason

Bryan Gaensler - The Conversation
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"An artist's impression of a quasar with a supermassive black hole in the distant universe," from the University of Arizona (Zhaoyu Li/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Misti Mountain Observatory)

Sarah Gray
(NASA)

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/NASA)

Joanna Rothkopf
(NASA/SDO/Goddard)

Sarah Gray
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how long you'd survive on each planet (Screenshot from Business Insider)

Sarah Gray
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