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 ...