SOLAR flares can knock out satellites, kill GPS navigation, trigger power blackouts, and irradiate astronauts. A single major solar storm could cost the global economy $2.4 trillion over five years.

From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA announced Wednesday that it is deciphering the sun's behavior with help from artificial intelligence. In a press release, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said ...

Astronomy often focuses on objects that are vast distances from Earth – stars that are light-years away, galaxies that are tens of thousands of light-years away, quasars at the edge of the known ...

On July 1, 2025, initial detection of the space object now known as 3I/ATLAS was first reported, marking the third confirmed interstellar object ever discovered within our solar system. Since its ...

University of Rochester researchers have developed a way to make solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs) 15 times more powerful, potentially closing the efficiency gap with conventional solar panels ...

A remarkable object is rocketing through our solar system. It's a comet known as 3I/ATLAS. NASA caught a sharp image of it, which is striking because astronomer David Jewitt says that's like glimpsing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released the ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to Earth, the administration announced Thursday. The Alpha ...