NASA plans to study the Northern Lights by launching rockets in Alaska. The goal is to understand the causes of auroras' ...

Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...

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

NASA is launching rockets into the Northern Lights from Alaska to investigate why auroras have distinct movements such as flickering and pulsating.

The best viewing for January's planetary parade is about 90 minutes after sunset, in as dark and clear a spot as you can find. Use binoculars or a telescope for an even better look. The alignment will ...

NASA launched Blue Ghost with a motive to study the moon’s atmosphere. It is expected to orbit the Earth and moon for 45 days. The Blue Ghost has already started sending data.

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Mu ...

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

The sun is at the peak of its 11-year cycle. That means an uptick in solar flares will lead to more chances to see the northern lights over the next couple of years.

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...