Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful ...

Speed is one of the most vital factors in space missions. To reach distant planets, study the Sun, or escape Earth’s gravity, ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the ...

NASA's new mission «Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere» (PUNCH), which includes 4 small spacecraft in low Earth orbit, has made the fir ...

Researchers watching the capsule, dubbed Kosmos 482, believe it will fall back to Earth any day ... The most spectacular images of Venus ever captured NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which studies ...

The biggest rainbow in the solar system was just captured by newly-launched spacecraft as NASA scientists study the sun and ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ...