Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...

The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

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

You’d think we’d have the solar system pretty well figured out by now. It’s our own cosmic backyard, after all. […] ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever recorded. The new images were captured with Parker's Wide-Field Imager for Solar ...