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.
Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a long-lost Roman city that was destroyed by a tsunami.
The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) is able to recreate the conditions found inside the Sun.
Dozens of people had to be treated in hospital after a mysterious haze appeared in the area on Sunday.
A peculiar virus has been causing caterpillars in the UK to incinerate themselves in bright sunlight.
Marine researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified the first new species of sunfish in over 130 years.
The high-powered Diocles Laser in Nebraska is changing the way that scientists look at the universe.
Astronomers have suggested that there may be more than one mystery planet in the outer solar system.
New evidence has suggested that all the sunlike stars in the universe may have formed together in pairs.
The probe, which has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe, will be launching as early as next year.
Known as Solar Probe Plus, the mission will be officially revealed in an announcement on Wednesday.
An extremely loud bang managed to wake up half the city when it shook houses at 3am on Sunday morning.
Scientists at JPL have come up with an ambitious new plan to get a better look at extrasolar planets.