The Parker Solar Probe, which is about the size of a small car, launched in 2018 on a daring mission to "touch" the sun. Scientists were hoping that it'd decode some of the hottest mysteries about ...

The sun erupted with an X2.3-class solar flare this morning, triggering radio blackouts The X-class solar flare was released from a sunspot region AR 3883 at 8:40 a.m. ET (1340 UTC) on Wednesday ...

Sun Tower was built to help fill this gap. The “Phenomena Space” looks out to the water. (Iwan Baan/Courtesy OPEN Architecture) The dramatic voids OPEN Architecture carved away from the ...

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. Located in Yantai ...

Here’s how it works. The first images from a new space-based telescope launched into Earth's orbit to monitor the sun captured a striking solar storm outburst. The National Oceanic and ...

To truly soak in the sun, west Africa’s Gambia enjoys scorching average temperatures of 34C through winter, creating a year-round appeal for a guaranteed winter week in the sun that’s just ...

Sun Tower, designed by Open Architecture, stands along Yantai’s Bohai Bay esplanade like the weathered shell of a giant mollusk. One-hundred-sixty-four feet tall and equally wide at its base, its ...

Among the “tigers” felled in the campaign were Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Sun Zhengcai and Ling Jihua. Yang said more than 8,900 city level officials and over 63,000 county level ...

India has launched its first observation mission to the Sun, just days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the Moon's south pole. Aditya-L1 lifted off from the launch ...

Also, ahead of the 19th Congress Xi targeted an up-and-coming figure, Sun Zhengcai from Chongqing, by having him investigated for “serious discipline violations,” party code for corruption.

As of Monday, 141 million mu wheat in six major grain production provinces, including Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu and Shaanxi, were hit by drought, MOA minister Sun Zhengcai said in an ...