The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission.

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. [...] ...

NASA and NOAA announced that the sun has reached its solar maximum period, a time when the sun produces more solar activity ...

Crucially, this magnetic field grabs and then accelerates particles from the relentless solar wind — a stream of ... these electronics get," Phillips said. (NASA's Juno craft, exploring the greater ...

Brian Cox, the 56-year-old physicist who first found fame as the keyboard player in the chart-topping band D:ream, has gone ...

Researchers using NASA and ESA spacecraft have uncovered how magnetic switchbacks near the Sun energize the solar wind, ...

The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet was created more than 4 billion years ago when the planets reshuffled and changed the ...

A photographer in San Francisco created a compilation showcasing a newly discovered comet streaking across the California sky over several nights in mid-October. Footage recorded by Shreenivasan ...

If you look up at the night sky, you might be able to catch a glimpse of a rare, ancient comet — as long as you’re looking in ...

The “comet of the century” will still be visible for another few days in North America. The icy object, known to scientists ...

Solar maximum refers to the highest rate of solar activity during the sun's approximately 11-year solar cycle. It is ...