The century's longest solar eclipse is set to take place in August 2027 with an estimated 90 million people expected to ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

#2. The Moon came from Earth. It didn’t form beside our planet, and Earth’s gravity didn’t capture it. The latest theory says ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

This paper presents a simple empirical two parameter solar radiation pressure model for an orbit prediction application in a navigation device that does not have a network connection. The model is ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.