A spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that is in danger of crashing back to Earth.

The X1.1 eruption briefly disrupted radio communications across the daylight side of Earth, while forecasters now expect the ...

We might not have to go scorched Earth after all. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth might actually weather the fiery death of the sun that’s expected to engulf our neighbors, per a relieving study ...

The star’s looming death will dramatically reshape the inner solar system, engulfing Mercury and Venus in a fiery sphere. The ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a clear link between the sun's explosive storms and the weather that occurs on ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a distant galaxy merger called CRISTAL-02. CRISTAL-02 is losing ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob Haqq‐Misra of Blue Marble Space and Eric Wolf at the University of Colorado ...

A dying massive star can regain spin deep inside itself instead of simply slowing down, according to new research. The reversal challenges the usual story of stellar death and could change how ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

The fighting continues in the Middle East, and oil’s back on the move, as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s five-day deadline for resolving differences with Iran. That’s the backdrop for ...

The inner solar system may have formed differently from how we have long thought it must have. For decades, researchers have thought that the rocky planets formed from a single disc of dust and debris ...