Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...
A 140-foot space rock, Asteroid 2007 EG, will pass relatively close to Earth soon. Scientists say it’s harmless, yet they’re watching carefully. Why does this flyby matter for future asteroid defence?
NASA is preparing to conduct its first spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) in nearly a year, ending an ...
NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside of the International Space Station.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of ...
A solar eclipse recorded in ancient China more than 2,700 years ago is helping scientists refine measurements of Earth’s rotation and investigate the Sun’s past behavior.
New research provides a physics based solution for why we aren't hearing potential messages from alien civilizations.
This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU PEEC NEWS RELEASE ...
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are a staple of Alaskan culture and folklore. But behind the glow of red, purple, and green are solar flares and geomagnetic storms that influence life here on ...
If the spectrum truly matches a Wolf-Rayet type, it may belong to a rare class of planetary nebula central stars that ...
Sending AI data centers into space sounds futuristic, but Nvidia's CEO says a few practical obstacles still make that idea ...
A cargo resupply spacecraft is on its way back to Earth from the International Space Station, where it will make a fiery reentry Saturday, March 14.