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

The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

NASA’s Deep Space Network and Near Space Network will be the communication hubs for the Artemis 1 mission during its journey ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

PUNCH's main goal is to study how the Sun's corona transforms into solar wind, a stream of charged particles that flows ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

A historic solar storm in May 2024 not only triggered spectacular auroras but also created two new temporary radiation belts ...

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean.

2020年10月，美国太空总局（NASA）OSIRIS-REx太空探测器成功登陆距地球3.2亿公里的小行星贝努（Bennu），并从松散地表收集约120克尘埃与岩石样本，2023年9月封存后返航，并顺利降落美国犹他州沙漠。团队详细分析这些珍贵样本，显示太阳系形成初期，贝努的母天体可能曾有液态水，成果提供太阳系形成初期环境的化学组成重要线索。