After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...

"We want to make sure that our exploration of the moon is done safely and that investments are made in a way that's carefully ...

Explore the space between the stars from the safety of a virtual cockpit with the best space flight simulation games.

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon ...

An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite, nicknamed Kushinada-I, is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site tonight at 11:45 p.m. EDT (0345 GMT and 3:45 p.m. local New ...

But researchers found that the space hurricane formed under a northward-aligned IMF, which typically "closes the door" to geomagnetic activity. As a result, these storms often go unnoticed by standard ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

Heads up, stargazers! The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares after sunset on Sunday (Aug. 3).

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from ...