A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, confirming decades-old theories about solar explosions. This discovery bridges ...

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

Coronal mass ejections are powerful releases of plasma, electrically charged particles from the Sun. The Sun is constantly ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity within the scientific community. This discovery could provide crucial insights ...

Who knew a small magnet could hold the power to fix one of space exploration’s biggest headaches? For decades, astronauts have been haunted by a stubborn problem: producing oxygen efficiently in ...