NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New simulations reveal that no spacecraft's safety will be fully guaranteed when the next ...

The last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon. This is a problem for two ...

Researchers affiliated with King’s College London have published a new modeling study showing that space-based solar power ...

A century-old vision of space-based solar power is being revived by tech billionaires, raising profound questions about the ...

Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a vision for solar and space physics to advance understanding of physics in space; comprehend the ...

The time between tracking failure and satellite collision has dropped to days, showing how fragile low Earth orbit has become.