From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app.

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have managed to peek into one of the fleeting windows ...

The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

In a breakthrough for astronomers the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken its first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. Called HIP 65426 b, the Jupiter-like planet orbits a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week, NASA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO ...

Two spacecraft designed to study the sun’s corona — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar Orbiter — have also launched since the 2017 solar eclipse.

This coronal mass ejection, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, erupted on the sun on Aug. 31, 2012. (Image credit: NASA/GFSC/SDO) ...