A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever ... heavens forbid, an actual telescope. The whole point of ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more appropriate than thought.

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com and joined the team in 2001 ... where the entire face of the moon is illuminated by the sun as seen from Earth. "This is as close as we come to seeing ...

Satellite images reveal China is building a massive laser fusion facility, which can be used in nuclear weapons research as ...

Space rocks and manufactured items respond differently to solar radiation pressure, or the momentum of particles of light from the sun. These quantum particles, called photons, exert a tiny bit of ...

If you are fortunate to live in the occultation zone and the weather cooperates, this upcoming event is one that really should not be missed.

The northern Swedish city of Umeå is regarded as a paragon of equality. Nowhere else are public spaces more geared toward ...

After expanding the model, he and Fraschetti wanted to compare it to an actual solar event ... 5, 2022, the sun spat a huge wad of energy into space just as NASA's Parker Solar Probe took one ...