In the first months of 2026, several chunks of spent rocket hardware tumbled back into the atmosphere weeks earlier than ...

The moon hovers over a shadowy void wreathed in sunlight in a stunning new photo taken by NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission on April 27. PUNCH is a collection of ...

Scientists have discovered the Sun has been undergoing systematic changes in its internal solar activity over the past few ...

For nearly three weeks in late 2022, the sun would not shut up. A single region on its surface belted out radio waves day after day, from late October through mid-November, producing what researchers ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

"These first images of the solar poles are just the start." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Solar ...

A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...

Space weather forecasting doesn't yet command the same resources as Earth weather forecasting, even though the stakes are growing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors ...

Radio astronomer Emma Chapman explains why the radio view of the universe is so crucial to space exploration, astronomy, and ...