I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

The impacts of space weather such as extreme solar winds and magnetic waves are not limited to outer space. Bursts of plasma emanating from the sun, for instance, can temporarily intensify electric ...

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

The summer solstice is a moment in space and time during the annual orbit when our tilted planet’s Northern Hemisphere points the most toward the sun.

Friday marks the summer solstice, the traditional and astronomical first day of summer. It’s also the day with the most ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

For those north of the equator, the solstice marks the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Earth spins on a ...

What time is liftoff? ULA's Atlas V should be visible outside of Florida pending weather. Did your city, state make the ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...