Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven image-processing techniques," according to Northwestern University. Gemini Observatory ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The sun remains up for around 20 hours each day. In Svalbard, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, the sun doesn’t set from April 10 to August 23. Here, you can live for days without ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

Entering orbit around Earth. The New Glenn rocket just hit “Max Q,” an aerospace term that refers to the point during flight at which a vehicle experiences its maximum dynamic pressure.

is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units (1 AU is the distance to the Sun), that's just over 4.5 million miles," Martin Barstow ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth. Named after the first American to orbit ...

A Blue Origin crew vehicle would provide NASA with more options when transporting humans to and from low-Earth orbit or even the Moon. Though this launch of New Glenn has been 25 years in the ...