Lovers of the stars, sky and space have had the option to study astronomy on the curriculum since September 2017, when ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission has launched to map it like never before.

The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22 ...

On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...