Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions ...

From plasma engines that could turn months of travel into weeks to the first blueprints for ships that will outlive their ...

NASA NIAC has funded studying the development of a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and scalable fusion propulsion system. In April 2, 2024 – Helicity Space had an ...

Editor's note: NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 a.m. for the launch of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions. Much as ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

Space weather observers warn that the Van Allen radiation belts are now fully charged after repeated solar storms, raising ...

The result is thanks to the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The shimmering northern lights that ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

The Sun looks like a warm yellow sphere with a surface covered with glowing messy hair. The yellow glow extends to the edges of the image, with some regions brighter than others. Many bright yellow ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...