Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

This image depicts the X-ray emission intensity distribution (keyed in colors) calculated by the proposed model and Earth’s ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have managed to peek into one of the fleeting windows ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bengaluru have managed to peek into one of the fleeting windows to the Sun — miniature plasma loops in the lower layers of the Sun’s ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

For the first time since its launch on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet, TWA 7 b, in the debris disk of a young star.

It was an X-class flare — the most intense kind, NASA said. Solar flares are essentially "giant explosions on the sun" that send energy, light and high-speed particles into space, according to NASA.