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India launches Aditya-L1, its first solar observation mission, to observe the solar corona, photosphere and chromosphere, and to study solar winds and solar flares and their effect on Earth and near-space weather.
2023-09-2

According to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the Sun nearly 4 billion years ago.
2020-10-1

NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" spacecraft becomes the closest ever sent to the sun, by passing 42.7 million km (26.6 million miles) from the sun's surface. The previous record was set in 1976 by the "Helios 2" spacecraft. Parker's elliptical orbit will eventually take it to within 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) of the sun.
2018-10-30

NASA launches the "Parker Solar Probe", an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun.
2018-08-12

Scientists (in the article published in the journal "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics") warn that the ozone layer that protects people from the sun's ultraviolet radiation is recovering only over less populated areas.
2018-02-6

Japan announces plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic during the southern hemisphere summer. Commercial whaling has been banned for over 30 years by the International Whaling Commission.
2015-06-22

Comet ISON breaks up into a cloud of debris after skimming the Sun.
2013-12-1

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California.
2013-06-27

New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole.
2012-11-29

Flights in the Southern hemisphere from Australia to Argentina are disrupted by the Puyehue volcanic eruption.
2011-06-13