Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

The moon’s shadow, as seen from the International Space Station, passes over central Asia during a 2020 total solar eclipse. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

The "Blue Marble" is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972 as the Apollo 17 crew made its way to the moon. It's a detailed image of our planet, against the inky black void of space. Africa ...

Scientists often use coronagraphs to study visible light from the corona, revealing dynamic features, such as solar storms, that shape the weather in space, potentially impacting Earth and beyond.

Sample-return missions have brought piles of moon rocks, plus pieces of asteroids, comets and even the sun back to Earth. Next up is the big prize: Mars Skip to main content ...

Dean chats with Mark Brown a former Air Force pilot astronaut and now an aerospace consultant to companies going above and beyond.Send us your thoughts at [email protected] or post them on social ...

Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of ...

Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years. By Cara Buckley Cara Buckley reported from Earth ...

A total solar eclipse, in theory, would be one of the best times for space-borne astronauts to distinctly observe the sun’s outer atmosphere, when the moon naturally blocks out the rest of the star.