Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.
The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal ...
From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...
The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...
Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo".