China has announced bold new plans to develop a space-based solar power plant, aiming to collect solar energy in orbit and ...

The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured imagery of the sun over the last few years. The ...

While Eric Schmidt and other Western space entrepreneurs are still exploring the idea of orbital data centers, Chinese companies have already begun moving forward. Last week, ...

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

A first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for major solar ...

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) with 2006 data from Japan’s AKARI mission in ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our solar system.

NASA’s IMAP mission will study the heliosphere to understand solar wind and space weather, launching in fall 2025 from ...

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...