NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...

In May 2024, auroras were observed at unusually low latitudes across the globe, lighting up skies that rarely see such ...

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

A University of Iowa-led physics team has detailed the extreme expansion of a magnetic cloud that originated from a huge, gaseous explosion on the sun. In a new study, the researchers describe the ...

The Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, ...

Our magnetosphere plays the role of gatekeeper, repelling unwanted energy that's harmful to life on Earth, trapping most of it a safe distance from Earth's surface in twin doughnut-shaped zones called ...

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

Space stations with artificial gravity that will allow humans to travel deep into the Solar System are on the horizon.

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...