Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

Every two years, the Sun blocks communication between Earth and Mars during solar conjunction, forcing NASA to pause commands ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS' CO₂-rich coma offers new clues about distant star systems, revealed through NASA and ESA ultraviolet, X-ray, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by observing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing a fresh perspective on an object passing through our solar system ...

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to be riddled with gaps. Instead of a perfect rainbow, the Sun’s light is ...

Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance of seeing this shower. The moon ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

Solar eclipses have this strange power. They make people stop mid-scroll and look up at the sky. Scientists, students, casual ...

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

On July 4, NASA's GOES-18 satellite captured the Dragon Bravo fire in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park which started with ...