The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

Voyager 2 spent over four decades journeying through the outer solar system. In 2018, it became only the second human-made ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star so far on its ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

New images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft are giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun’s volatile lower atmosphere and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar eruptions ...

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

Space exploration is meant to create a positive future. The legacy of Apollo, and of our robot explorers in the solar system ...