NASA’s Hubble and Chandra teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, called an intermediate-mass black hole.

More than 2,000 curious visitors from Newport News and the surrounding Hampton Roads region of Virginia flocked to ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NASA missions require to search for habitable worlds.

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise. Two days earlier, the Sun blasted ...

For the first time, scientists can observe temperature changes in the Sun's outer atmosphere thanks to new technology introduced by NASA’s CODEX instrument. This animated, color-coded heat map shows ...

On May 10, 2024, the first G5 or “severe” geomagnetic storm in over two decades hit Earth. The event did not cause any catastrophic damages, but it did produce surprising effects on Earth. The storm, ...

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.

Though they don’t orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, that have been observed in our galaxy. These small, gassy planets are ...

In celebration of Hubble’s 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA released an assortment of compelling images, including a galaxy, nebulae, and Mars.

One year ago today, a total solar eclipse swept across the United States. The event was a cornerstone moment in the Heliophysics Big Year, a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the ...