For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager spacecraft have been traveling farther from Earth than any human-made object in history. They've given us our first close-up looks at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

When a catastrophic, Carrington-level coronal mass ejection slams into Earth's magnetic field, the resulting extreme ...

A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two decades. The video shown below—made from images captured by NASA’s Solar ...

Venus and Saturn will appear within about one degree of each other this weekend, making this one of the closest naked-eye ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

The Virginia General Assembly has passed companion bills HB 395 and SB 250, creating a streamlined pathway for so-called "balcony solar" devices up to 1,200 W, but significant questions remain around ...

The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.

Satellite views and space telescopes allow scientists to see amazing wonders, such as sand seas in the Namib Desert, "spiderweb" formations on Mars, and even distant nebulae. Sometimes, though, a ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.