The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is known for a stunning spectacle of light in the night sky, but this near-Earth manifestation, which is caused by explosive activity on the sun and carried by ...

A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European Space Agency released ...

The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

Auroras are breath-taking natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with gases in ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

In November, Pettit captured the trail SpaceX's giant Starship megarocket made in Earth's atmosphere during its sixth-ever ...

Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.