Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

On Wednesday, a powerful SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into the sky from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space ...

The next satellites SpaceX helps to deliver to orbit from Vandenberg won't be its own, but rather two of NASA's on a ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

An image of post-eruptive loops in the wake of a solar flare, taken by the TRACE satellite in the year 2000. A sunspot is moving into the right position to send a proton storm toward ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system.