After seeing Elon Musk send thousands upon thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit, it’s only natural to wonder, why can ...

A value called Bz indicates how far south the solar wind's magnetic field is pointing, which can predict how likely the northern lights are to occur.

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to ...

A 3D model of the solar neighborhood, within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar ...

Our Solar System is located within a low-density region known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This bubble is filled with a ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.

When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...

Humanity's exploration of outer space continues to unveil astonishing discoveries that challenge our understanding of the ...