President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ that sought to slash NASA’s budget is a dangerous misstep at a time ...

Given just how big space is, the solar system seems like it shouldn't be too mysterious. But there are actually plenty of ...

The Sun is the closest star to us and the most studied by humanity. There is a lot we still do not know about it. Among the ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter probe captured the first clear images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new details about solar activity ...

The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

European Space Agency isn’t ruling out the cancellation or freezing of some space exploration programmes if budget cuts to ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary space science. The U.S. is building ...

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

Until now, all the views of the sun have come from the same vantage point - looking face-on toward its equator from the plane ...

The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the ...

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...