The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

What is the speed of Earth’s rotation? Here’s why we don’t feel a thing, even though Earth spins at 1,000 mph.

What’s in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.

After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...

The drone's soft wings and precise control system allow for an incredibly gentle landing, settling onto a person's palm without any jarring movements.

But researchers found that the space hurricane formed under a northward-aligned IMF, which typically "closes the door" to geomagnetic activity. As a result, these storms often go unnoticed by standard ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

Astronomers have detected signs of complex organic molecules, the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it, in ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

Take a photograph of the night sky, far away from any urban lights, and you stand a good chance of capturing the telltale streak of a satellite passing overhead. For any ground-based telescope ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...