We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Nature is breathtaking — but sometimes, it’s terrifying. This video captures intense moments where the natural world shows ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

Solar Orbiter used momentum from its flyby of Venus on February 18 to push itself out of the ecliptic plane that contains Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Around a month later, the spacecraft was ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

American space agency NASA says the SPHEREx telescope has begun returning science data, and it will all be shared with the ...