The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured imagery of the sun over the last few years. The solar flares (blue circles) are shown using data from the spacecraft's ...

A brand-new SpaceX rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

2025 — The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists ...

In low Earth orbit — the region of space up to the altitude of 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) — satellites struggle during solar storms due to the increased atmospheric drag caused by the ...

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

Starfish Space is getting ready for a second test mission aimed at having its Otter Pup spacecraft dock with another ...

British startup Space Solar has announced the successful completion of tests of its own technology for transmitting solar energy from space to Earth. Space Solar claims that its space solar panels ...

Although no solar storm took place on the day of the Spanish blackout, experts worry that the multitude of possible explanations behind such events could delay response times and exacerbate their ...

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of data ...

Twelve satellites, each equipped with intelligent computing systems and inter-satellite communication links, were sent into orbit aboard a ... data centres can use solar power and radiate their ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. New research has pinpointed the exact date when the strongest ever solar particle storm hit the Earth. This identification of the event ...