The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

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The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be older than the Sun. Scientists are analysing its composition, origin, and rare ...

That star at the center of our Solar System, that superhot ball of plasma that gives us heat and energy, and amazing ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

The most useful times in the life of a comet are usually the ones that come after the close pass, when the light has cleared up, the geometry is better and the physics is more prone to analysis into ...

Earth reached its closest point to the Sun on January 3, 2026, marking the annual perihelion. This coincided with the ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...

Scientists tracked a single active region on the Sun for 94 days using two spacecraft, far beyond the typical two-week ...