On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the European Space Agency. See the footage here along with Solar and Heliospheric ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

The global push to decarbonize energy systems is increasingly clashing with land use, biodiversity, and cultural priorities, ...

The Orion constellation is home to some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy. When you purchase through links ...

This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an understanding of dark matter.

Greetings stargazers. The current sunspot cycle maximum continues to amaze. Several times during the past year, the Aurora ...

This cluster of sunspots has produced more than 60 solar flares, including several that could spark colorful auroras across ...