The probe, which is on a daring mission to the Sun, will become the fastest man-made object in history.
Residents were left perplexed last Friday when an area the size of the UK descended in to darkness for 3 hours.
The wreck of a Russian ship thought to contain 5,500 boxes of gold bars has been found off South Korea.
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
A weather camera picked up this peculiar anomaly on Sunday night and nobody can agree on what it is.
Scientists have been investigating why words repeatedly spoken out loud sound like they are being sung.
An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
When our star eventually dies, it will go out in a blaze of glory and produce what is known as a planetary nebula.
A new study has revealed that plants protect themselves from Sun damage by repairing their own DNA.
A mysterious form of navigation referenced in early Viking literature may have genuinely existed.
Salt particles, he argues, would reflect more of the Sun's rays back in to space and help to reduce global warming.
William Shatner is one of thousands of people whose names will soon be sent to the Sun on a memory card.
The notoriously hot and dry Sahara was left coated in a layer of snow following a winter storm on Sunday.
Code-named Zuma, the secretive satellite was launched in to orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday night.
A new mathematical model of the Sun's magnetic activity has indicated that we may soon be in for a cold spell.
One viewer of August's total solar eclipse ended up with eye damage in the exact shape of the Sun.
Nicknamed Pearl, the reptile was seen swimming around in the Adelaide River near Darwin on Sunday.
Astronomers have observed an extrasolar planet with some of the weirdest weather conditions ever seen.
Solar observations made by a satellite were interrupted this week when the Moon made a sneaky appearance.
Two extremely powerful solar flares erupted from a large sunspot on the Sun's surface yesterday.