HD 162826 is also quite similar to the Sun, albeit 15 percent more massive. Astronomers observing the star say that it is highly likely that HD 162826 was formed in the same dust cloud that also ...

It was, Dante Lauretta told his audience at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, like seeing an old friend after “seven years [and] a journey of 3bn miles”. Sitting in front ...

A NASA solar probe is expected to blast off this week on a dramatic mission to catch some rays.Not only will the $164 million Genesis spacecraft collect samples of our sun’s solar wind, it will ...