On April 27, 2025, a Taurus new moon graces our night skies. Peaking at 7 degrees of Taurus, this lunation offers every ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Lunar samples show evidence that solar wind could be behind the water molecules on the moon's surface, according to NASA. The results could shine a light on how water ice collects in cold traps formed ...

New research published by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics offers a compelling explanation for the strange ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...