An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

The Marslink proposal, presented at NASA's Mars Exploration Program meeting, involves SpaceX deploying satellites in Mars' ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...

If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.