The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

And while it is there, it has been collecting data using its science instruments and testing out its communication system ... with the X-band antenna and NASA’s Lunar Environment heliospheric ...

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NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back ... meant to calibrate Blue Ghost’s propulsion system ahead of a critical burn this week that ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.