The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

A research team, led by Prof. Meng Qingyan from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

During a partial solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and Earth. The moon casts a shadow on Earth and only partly ...

Any errors in how Vulkan is used can result in a crash. This project provides Vulkan validation layers that can be enabled to assist development by enabling developers to verify their applications ...

known as the heliosphere; the edges of that bubble represent the barrier between our cosmic neighborhood and the rest of the universe. Decoding how our sun operates in general can offer many ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million years ago. This cosmic journey may have altered Earth’s environment, ...

Solar physics is the study of the fundamental processes occurring in the sun. Primarily this is related to the dynamics of plasmas and their interplay with the sun’s magnetic fields, and how ...