The possible aurora borealis coincides with the Perseids meteor shower, with hundreds of meteors likely visible in the night ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

View of Earth as seen by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski inside the seven-windowed cupola, the ...

The unprecedented images will help scientists unravel the mysteries of solar wind and its impact on Earth, according to NASA.

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...

Watch the pair of amazing time-lapses of the Aurora Borealis from the International Space Station captured by NASA astronaut ...