The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...

Wildfires have displaced more than 1,000 employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and left more than 200 at JPL/Caltech homeless. The Eaton Fire sent families scrambling gathering their children ...

Average stars like our sun die ignominiously. They swell to enormous size, cool from yellow to red hot, and shed most of ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

You'll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...