Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening. Recent work from the Andrews suggests that particles in solar flares can ...

NASA is planning to adopt new AI tools to predict space weather. By combining solar, ionospheric, and magnetic field data with machine learning, NASA has already developed models that can foresee ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole", according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbite ...

While the days have been gradually getting shorter since the summer solstice, the rate at which Washington loses daylight ...

As of Saturday, Sept. 13, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 60% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. So, what can we spot tonight? Without any visual aids spot ...

NASA is targeting liftoff at NET 7:32 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center.

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...