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Captain Kirk books his name on trip to the Sun
Mar 7, 2018William Shatner is one of thousands of people whose names will soon be sent to the Sun on a memory card.
Snow has been falling in the Sahara Desert
VIDEO Jan 10, 2018The notoriously hot and dry Sahara was left coated in a layer of snow following a winter storm on Sunday.
SpaceX launches mystery government satellite
VIDEO Jan 8, 2018Code-named Zuma, the secretive satellite was launched in to orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday night.
Scientists predict 'mini ice age' by 2030
Dec 27, 2017A new mathematical model of the Sun's magnetic activity has indicated that we may soon be in for a cold spell.
Woman has eclipse burned on to her retinas
Dec 9, 2017One viewer of August's total solar eclipse ended up with eye damage in the exact shape of the Sun.
Mature white crocodile sighted in Australia
Nov 22, 2017Nicknamed Pearl, the reptile was seen swimming around in the Adelaide River near Darwin on Sunday.
Scorching hot exoplanet 'snows' sunscreen
Oct 27, 2017Astronomers have observed an extrasolar planet with some of the weirdest weather conditions ever seen.
Moon photobombs the Sun on NASA images
Oct 22, 2017Solar observations made by a satellite were interrupted this week when the Moon made a sneaky appearance.
Earth hit by strongest solar flare in 10 years
VIDEO Sep 7, 2017Two extremely powerful solar flares erupted from a large sunspot on the Sun's surface yesterday.
Record-breaking astronaut returns to Earth
Sep 3, 2017NASA's Peggy Whitson broke a slew of records during her latest 288-day mission aboard the ISS.
Lost city of Neapolis discovered in Tunisia
Sep 3, 2017Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a long-lost Roman city that was destroyed by a tsunami.
World's most powerful X-ray laser unveiled
VIDEO Sep 1, 2017The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) is able to recreate the conditions found inside the Sun.
Mystery gas engulfs UK's East Sussex coast
Aug 28, 2017Dozens of people had to be treated in hospital after a mysterious haze appeared in the area on Sunday.
There won't always be total solar eclipses
VIDEO Aug 21, 2017One day, the Moon will have moved so far away that a total solar eclipse will no longer be possible.
'Zombie virus' causes caterpillars to explode
Aug 4, 2017A peculiar virus has been causing caterpillars in the UK to incinerate themselves in bright sunlight.
New species of giant sunfish discovered
VIDEO Jul 24, 2017Marine researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified the first new species of sunfish in over 130 years.
Laser beam is 'as bright as a billion suns'
Jun 26, 2017The high-powered Diocles Laser in Nebraska is changing the way that scientists look at the universe.
Mysterious Mars-sized 'Planet Ten' proposed
Jun 23, 2017Astronomers have suggested that there may be more than one mystery planet in the outer solar system.
Did the Sun once have a companion star ?
Jun 14, 2017New evidence has suggested that all the sunlike stars in the universe may have formed together in pairs.
NASA officially announces mission to the Sun
Jun 2, 2017The probe, which has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe, will be launching as early as next year.
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