An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

In a jaw-dropping moment of astronomical photography, Arizona-based astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured the ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study ... significantly higher than the typical atmospheric background temperature of 660 ...

When two blasts of super-hot plasma from the sun slammed into each other in 2012, they forged a "perfect storm" of space weather so intense, it was stronger than the most powerful solar eruption ...

The space balls appear small in the photos but are actually thousands of times larger than our own solar system. So far, volunteers have found 900 of these yellow space balls, as part of the Milky ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted its mission concept study to NASA for demonstrating solar electric propulsion (SEP) technologies in space. Ball Aerospace was one of five ...

Gigantic balls of warm mud, hurling through space, were likely the building blocks of our solar system. Scientists previously believed that rocky asteroids were responsible for bringing water and ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying. The result is hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space ...