NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through ...

Recently, the Aditya-L1 mission captured a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower solar atmosphere. What is a solar flare? Why has ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies through the solar atmosphere. Scientists hope the mission will reveal new ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

An incredible image shows the spring equinox from space. On Friday, at 9:01 a.m. UK time, the Sun appeared directly above ...

Astronomers Amazed to Identify ‘Cosmic Triplets’ Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Neptune For decades, astronomers have mopped ...

The relationship between space weather and Earth’s climate has been a subject of intense study and debate among scientists ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

A Times reporter co-wrote a guide to buying a home in an era of record heat, floods and billion-dollar disasters.

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...