The Sun is in its solar maximum, a period marked by intense solar eruptions and bursts of charged particles directed toward ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have shown carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – that’s a good sign for the habitability of its buried seas ...
Venus and Mars also have aurorae, but they lack magnetic fields. What happens there is very different from what happens on ...
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...
A celestial object found in 2021 within the asteroid belt was confirmed as a main-belt comet, distinguished by its icy composition and comet-like behaviors when near the Sun. Researchers emphasize the ...
Astronomers are detecting hundreds of exoplanets — worlds that don't orbit the sun — each year. Here are some of the new 2024 ...
Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt.
NASA supercomputers have revolutionized our understanding of the Sun, capturing its turbulent motions and complex behaviors like never before. Through a combination of advanced simulations and ...
Data processing for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and IRIS probe are down for a while, thanks to a burst water pipe in a server room used by the missions. The European-Japanese BepiColombo probe ...
When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019 ...
A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through ...
A new report lays out a comprehensive strategy to advance solar and space physics over the next decade, helping safeguard ...