A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact. The most powerful ...

Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight ...

The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

The northern lights have been no stranger to Iowa in 2024. See what the aurora borealis forecast says for Iowa tonight.

Earth's magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

Florida is gearing up for a busy 2025 in space exploration, with a packed schedule of rocket launches planned. From high-profile NASA missions to ambitious commercial projects, the launches are poised ...

The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun. Earlier this week, the Parker Solar Probe ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star.

NASA official Nicky Fox said in a video on social media Tuesday morning. "It is just a total 'yay, we did it,' moment." If the distance between Earth and the Sun is the equivalent to the length of ...