A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

Fast solar wind from a massive coronal hole in the sun could trigger dazzling auroral displays as geomagnetic activity is ...

The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...

This hand-drawn feature represents the first fully-animated movie in Looney Tunes' long 80-year history and it originally debuted at France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) Saturn, by contrast, is practically defined by its extensive rings. It seems likely that, outside the Solar System, rings could be common, given the large number of ...

“Io is one of the most intriguing objects in the whole solar system,” said study coauthor Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator and an associate vice president at the Southwest Research ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

“It’s a relic of the environment the solar system was born out of,” Rankin says of the interstellar medium. Within it are energetic atomic fragments called galactic cosmic rays, as well as ...