Particles that escaped Earth’s atmosphere accumulated on the lunar surface over billions of years. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

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

Comets are not the only celestial bodies with tails. Earth and Mercury also possess them, formed by different mechanisms.

Earth, like comets and Mercury, possesses a tail that potentially stretches up to two million kilometres into space on its ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Discover how certain animals perceive the world without full color vision. This brief glimpse explores surprising species, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...

Forecasts from the Space Weather Prediction Center suggest that 10 states may see the northern lights overnight Dec. 22. See ...

Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission. It aimed to show a soft landing and rover movement. Vikram landed near the South Pole in 2023.

The Sun has hurled a massive cloud of charged gas toward Earth, a coronal mass ejection that can carry billions of tons of ...