The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Sunspot AR3088 put on a striking display of solar activity, unleashing multiple M-class flares as it rotated across and out of view of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This time-lapse, ...

AN amazing time-lapse of the Northern Lights was captured earlier this week as one photographer declared it could have been ...

The Mauna Kea protests are gaining star power as Native Hawaiian groups continue to block construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Astronomers want to build a telescope they say would change the ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images ...

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

A severe G4 geomagnetic storm on January 19, 2026 enabled widespread aurora visibility across multiple continents following the arrival of a fast coronal mass ejection.

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

Developed by Hughes through the F-111 program, the AWG-9, mated with the AIM-54 Phoenix, made the Grumman F-14 Tomcat the most deadly fleet defense weapon of its time. Produced by Hughes Aircraft ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...