Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

The April 2024 total solar eclipse caused some birds to believe that a new day had arrived, prompting them to burst into song ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

The solar system is a grand cosmic stage where each planet and moon plays a unique role in a story billions of years in the making. From Mercury’s shrinking surface and Venus’s runaway greenhouse ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

The intensity of the Sun’s activity ebbs and flows across years, but also across decades—a behavior that scientists haven’t quite figured out yet. At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse traversed a wide swathe of North America stretching 2,500 miles ...

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy. The Trump administration has a dim view of the sun. Solar panels provided most of ...

When the April 2024 "Great American Eclipse" plunged midday into near-night, the daily rhythms and vocal behaviors of many ...

Ryan French receives funding from NASA. On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on the solar system, with further missions scheduled for 2026 and beyond.