An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the fireworks ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Colossal filament eruption on July 15 carved a 250,000-mile solar trench NASA's SDO captured the dramatic collapse of a ...

NASA will launch a sounding rocket Friday, July 18 from New Mexico near the Texas border. Here's what to know about the mission.

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but ...

NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, ...

The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...

A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...