The universe

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20.

Trillions of tons of hydrogen gas are likely buried in rocks and reservoirs beneath Earth's surface, but researchers aren't sure where it is yet.

A new image from the Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic cloud referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula, given its bright 'beak' and characteristic shape.

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing massive bolts of green lightning. Some experts think the pale clouds could end up altering the rusty band's color — and potentially even making it "disappear."

Dark matter, antimatter, W bosons and neutron lifetimes all feature in our top 10 stories.

Snow dots the Martian landscape in these images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests.

What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial bodies that seem to be neither planets nor stars.