For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...