Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, ...

Sulfur on Mercury was as important to the planet's formation as oxygen was to Earth's evolution, the study suggests.

A new NASA spacecraft has started tracking the particle streams that can make a massive solar flare dangerous while mapping ...

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of ...

From a scientific perspective, the results reveal a continuous evolutionary sequence of lunar organic matter -- from exogenous delivery through impact-induced restructuring, to space-weathering ...

Solar energy has a simple but annoying weakness. It disappears when the sun does.

Four astronauts are preparing to fly around the Moon on a roughly 10-day mission, and for the entire trip, teams on the ground will be watching the Sun as closely as they watch the spacecraft. NASA ...

With a summer glut on cards, customers are being urged to use more energy when renewables are abundant ...

I’m not aware of any pranks that anybody plans to pull on the flight crew or in the launch team itself,” Spaulding said. “I think I’ll just leave it at that. But I’m not aware of any, and I’m hoping ...