Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system. Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a ...

If you do check out Jupiter with a small telescope on Sunday night, you'll see all four Galilean moons, with Ganymede and Io on one side of Jupiter and Europa and Callisto on the other. The ...

April 2025 was a busy month for space. As a space lawyer and co-founder of For All Moonkind, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting human heritage in outer space, I know that the Moon could be the ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

One of the best naked-eye stargazing sights of the year is on offer to skywatchers this week — if you can rise before the sun Friday (Sept. 19). Just before sunrise, the crescent moon, the brilliant ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications ...

Staindrop Academy, in County Durham, played host to several mineral samples collected from the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications ...