For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

The Parker Solar Probe flew within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface, the closest any spacecraft has ever gone.