A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...

On Feb. 17, 2026, the moon slipped directly between Earth and the sun, creating a spectacular 'ring of fire' visible to very few people on Earth, but ESA's Proba-2 had had the best seat in the house.

"The previous record for a comet spindown went to 103P/Hartley 2, which slowed its rotation from 17 to 19 hours over 90 days, ...

By the time an inspector is standing in your basement, the question of whether your electrical panel upgrade is “optional” ...

New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Finding Earth’s exact position in the galaxy took centuries of observation and innovation. This story follows astronomers as ...