The Parker Solar Probe will endure scorching temperatures of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit as it performs the closest solar flyby ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Advocates say there’s a growing ethical obligation for researchers to explore alternative solutions to climate change.

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

If you’d like to see all the planets of our solar system, this is a good week to do so. Step outside at dusk and you’ll notice the most obvious of planets ...

Launched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is increasingly tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant ...

What happens at the particle level when aurora lights dance in rapid, shape-shifting arcs. An experiment called KiNET-X found ...

We explain this extraordinary phenomenon—and why solar flares and coronal mass ejections go together like spots on Dalmatians ...