The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Japanese carmaker Honda is offering its regenerative fuel cell (RFC) system for use in Astrobotic's lunar Vertical Solar ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...