A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in exoplanet parlance, it’s all but a cosmic featherweight. TWA 7b, which ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface – in its closest-ever approach on ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app.

Indian astronomers have found coronal loops in the Sun’s outer layer. They are arc-like, beautiful structures of hot plasma ...

The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of our sun ever captured. ESA has shared four images of the sun's surface, revealing the ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app.