After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

OPENING her eyes, Taylor could see flames tearing through her flat. Toxic fumes engulfed her lungs as she tried to wake her ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

Hubble keeps returning to the Egg Nebula because it changes in ways astronomers can actually track over years and decades. By comparing images taken at different times, scientists can see dust shift, ...

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun on Feb. 17, setting the stage for a dramatic annular solar eclipse.

Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets of worlds we may never see directly.

FROM breakfast to the dreaded bedtime routine, any parent will know just how exhausting each day can be when you have a ...

In this episode, we follow Voyager 2 - the strange, shovel-shaped spacecraft launched in 1977 that pulled off humanity’s only “grand tour” of the outer planets and then kept going into interstellar ...