Justice Sonia Sotomayor interrupted U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer during argument over birthright citizenship and nationwide court injunctions on Thursday, prompting Chief Justice Roberts to ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

informing our predictions for space weather and solar flares. During just one observation of the sun, this instrument can collect more than 10 million spectra — graphs of the light's intensity o ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion.

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star. This happened outside the core of its ...

These extra perspectives on the sun help reveal details of the solar surface, magnetic field and plasma that are otherwise invisible, informing our predictions for space weather and solar flares ...

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole located on the outskirts of a galaxy 600 million light-years from Earth ...

These blemishes mark areas of intense magnetic activity, where solar flares and coronal mass ejections ... way,” said Dr. Stacey Sueoka, a senior optical engineer at the National Solar ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission pulled off the first-ever artificial eclipse in space using fully automated spacecraft formation flying ...