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Skywatchers can enjoy the popular Perseid meteor shower from the comfort of their own homes when it peaks on Saturday (Aug.12) and Sunday (Aug. 13).

Misconceptions abound about how—and even if—sunscreen works.

After observing gamma rays coming from the sun for six years, researchers at the HAWC observatory in Mexico have found an excess of very high-energy gamma rays emerging as a result of the interaction between cosmic rays and the sun’s magnetic field. Researchers currently don’t have an explanation for this…

Whether your middle part keeps getting sunburnt or your phone loses its charge too quickly, here are 50 things that solve so many problems for less than $30.

NASA's groundbreaking spacecraft STEREO-A will return to Earth for a flying visit on Saturday (Aug. 12). The spacecraft, which has been away for 17 years, will team up with other NASA missions during its return.

They broke the previous record set just last month.

A Kickstarter campaign for Hestia, a system that turns a smartphone into a smart telescope, has crossed the $2 million dollar mark with under a week left to go.

Thanks to some precise maneuvering on Aug. 3, NASA says Parker is on-track to make its sixth and closest flyby of Venus on Aug. 21.

Protecting oneself from the summer sun and its damaging ultraviolet rays is often not straightforward. And public health messaging around when and how to be screened for skin cancer has become somewhat confusing.

The second planet from the sun is approaching 'inferior conjunction' as it swaps from being the 'Evening Star' to the 'Morning Star,' passing between Earth and the sun in the meantime.

Gregory Treverton, former U.S. National Intelligence Council Chair, has asked the U.S. Treasury Department to stop a consortium, led by Austin Russell, from buying Forbes magazine due to national security concerns. The consortium had dropped SUN Group as its lead investor due to links to Russia and the Chinese governments.…