The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “ SPHEREx ” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February.

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

Arecibo Observatory ... space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: [email protected]. Vicky Stein is a science writer ...

Chinese researchers are working on a new power station project that could gather and convert solar energy directly from space ...

The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), established in 1899, has made significant contributions to understanding solar ...

What to expect in space and ... and comets in our solar system that could one day be hazardous to Earth. Originally named the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in ...