NASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two science instruments have deployed hardware that ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...

Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780. NASA's Solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a new image of a galaxy famously named after the Mexican hat style.

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

The atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune may be separated into layers that don't mix, like oil and water.

The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

Massive sunspot AR3576 has been captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: ...

NASA stresses it was never captured by Earth’s gravity and fully in orbit — it’s “an interesting object” worthy of study.

The James Webb Space Telescope just captured a gorgeous image of the Sombrero galaxy. This cluster now looks more like an ...