Next month, a total solar eclipse will pass over a slice of the South Pacific, Chile and Argentina — and directly over an observatory in the Andes run by the National Science Foundation.
Scientists have found evidence of an ancient solar “superflare” hidden in a meteorite that was first found in Kazakhstan in 1962, according to a new paper.
Next week, NASA is scheduled to send human technology closer to a star than ever before. What they learn could change our understanding of, well, the whole galaxy.