Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

This image depicts the X-ray emission intensity distribution (keyed in colors) calculated by the proposed model and Earth’s ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have managed to peek into one of the fleeting windows ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have managed to peek into one of the fleeting windows to the Sun — miniature plasma loops in the lower layers of the Sun’s ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Technicians have installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield ...

Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio installed and deployed an ISS Roll Out Solar Array (iROSA). The rollout occurred while the International Space Station was flying over the Pacific Northwest ...