Imagine looking up on a dark winter night to see rippling ribbons of green and purple light dancing across the sky. The ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of the Avatar series, which centers on a moon that orbits a fictional gas giant ...

In 1941, Isaac Asimov told the story of Solar Station No. 5, a space station that collected power from the Sun, converted it ...

Scientists estimate the object to be more than 12-miles-wide, speeding at 37 miles-per-second, relative to the sun.

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...

HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University ...

"While it was not the outcome we had hoped for, mission experiences like Lunar Trailblazer help us to learn and reduce the ...

Astronomers are watching a giant exoplanet spiral toward its star - offering a rare, real-time look at how planets die.

Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hilo discovered a new celestial object that could provide insight into ...

During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the sun's corona—its outer atmosphere—in ways ...