Scientists are anticipating the possibility of witnessing striking auroras on Thursday.

Week of February 8-14, 2026 With much of North America shivering in a deep freeze, I'd be surprised if many folks are doing stargazing! If you're one of the intrepid few, you'll find it hard to ignore ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The sunspot region 4366 fired off dozens of powerful solar flares in 24 hours, including the single strongest flare since ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

A newly identified planet orbiting a Sun-like star sits near the edge of the habitable zone, making it a compelling target for future study.

What do you call an object that has all the characteristics of a moon, but whose mass compares to that of a giant planet? The ...

Liquid water might not need a perfect location to exist, and neither might alien life. Researchers now believe that planets ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...

Analysis of the wind speed and direction revealed that the cloud is moving at a different speed from its host star, ...