"Thanks to Solar Orbiter, we're getting to know our star better than ever." The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has tracked electrons traveling at nearly the speed ...

Space seems like it should be blazing hot with the Sun shining nonstop, yet astronauts and spacecraft deal with freezing cold. The reality is more complicated than distance alone because how heat ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, confirming decades-old theories about solar explosions. This discovery bridges ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

A coronagraph is used to study the sun, but recently NOAA's instruments caught the moon as well. To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a ...

(TNND) — NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of solar wind and space weather. Three spacecraft were sent up ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

The interstellar object dubbed 3I/ATLAS has been fascinating astronomers since its discovery in early July. The object, generally believed to be a comet, is screaming through the solar system at ...

More information about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has arrived through the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), through photographs taken of the comet by the telescope. Findings regarding this comet ...