While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Flickering coronal "loops" on the Sun are warning signs of a coming solar eruption, paving the way for better space weather ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

The Education Department has begun dropping references to “harmful” DEI initiatives from its public-facing communication ...

Have you hoped to see the northern lights shine over Iowa? You may have a chance tonight if you head far enough north.

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a telescope to be seen.

A coronal mass ejection from the Sun will reach us over the weekend. Experts are forecasting the appearance of colourful ...

The event, described by scientists as "very rare, beautiful, and even a bit strange," involved a cold prominence rich in ...

Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.

Those eagerly awaiting the promise of nuclear fusion were dealt a bad hand in 2024 when the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), designed to be the world’s biggest and baddest ...

Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...