Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.

The 100 best TV shows of all time voted by Empire fans and where to watch them tonight; Narcos · Gilmore Girls · Brooklyn ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun ...

The project has recently been submitted to the European Space Agency for consideration as a future mission. The current mission design proposes a launch in the 2030s, returning at least 400 minutes of ...

Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS sparked alien probe theories, fueled by Harvard scientist Avi Loeb's suggestions. However, extensive research using powerful telescopes like the Green Bank Telescope ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets ...