Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...

The Solar System feels familiar because it’s taught in simplified terms. In reality, it’s violent, unstable, and indifferent to life. Distances defy intuition, and conditions push far beyond anything ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Elon Musk's new AI-powered encyclopedia, Grokipedia, isn't just a wiki rival it's a grand vision for preserving human knowledge across the cosmos. Musk says the name Grokipedia is only temporary: once ...

Utility-scale solar projects in Sweden, Finland and Denmark are flourishing, while battery storage and AI are reshaping what’s possible. Image: Alight Forget any preconceptions about solar power in ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...