Astronomers have identified a frozen, Earth-sized world circling a nearby sunlike star, a find that sharpens the search for ...

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to accelerate to about 400,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft in history. That ...

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial ...

When visible in Florida, the space station can be spotted with the naked eye, appearing as a bright, fast-moving light. The best times to spot the station are a few hours before sunrise or after ...

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.

The UK is taking an ambitious step towards space-based solar power after a new ...

Diana Hernandez is performing research using data from a sun-orbiting space probe as an undergraduate sophomore. It is an impressive job for a student who only recently completed her first ...

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that ...

The International Space Station has been orbiting Earth for two decades, becoming an iconic cosmic landmark where astronauts have helped establish humanity's constant presence among the stars. Because ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government ...

How can scientists track space junk after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the ground? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...