First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning ...

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...

Using the Parker Solar Probe, NASA achieved what was once impossible — flying directly into the Sun’s outer atmosphere to ...

The Sun recently erupted with its most powerful solar flare of 2025, a massive burst of energy that immediately impacted ...

NASA's first multiple-satellite mission to another planet will map Mars' magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D, laying the ...

Scientists have finally observed long-sought twisting magnetic waves, known as torsional Alfvén waves, in the Sun’s corona—ending an eight-decade search that began in the 1940s. Using the powerful ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona reaches temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius, while the surface ...