The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, where the Sun is fully blocked, an annular eclipse leaves a thin circle of sunlight shining ...

Earth's cosmic neighbourhood is more dynamic than imagined, hosting temporary 'mini-moons' captured by gravity and ...

An annular solar eclipse occurs today, February 17, 2026. This celestial event will not be visible from India. However, it provides a valuable chance for students to learn about orbital mechanics. The ...

The annular or "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse will happen today, February 17, 2026. This celestial event will get a lot of ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

Imagine sprinting barefoot across a searing hot parking lot in midsummer. The ground blazes. The light dazzles and blinds ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the sun's outer atmosphere, using one of nature's rarest events as their window: total solar eclipses.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...