Elizabeth Howell

The rare partial solar eclipse stunned skywatchers on Apirl 30. Here's a look at their images.

As much as 64% of the sun will temporarily disappear from view Saturday (April 30), as a rare solar eclipse moves across part of our planet.

A partial solar eclipse is happening on April 30. Find out when, where and how to view the spectacular phenomenon.

The sun is a beehive of flaring activity in a stunning new photo from a NASA spacecraft.

For the second time in days, the sun hurled a large, X-class flare at Earth, causing radio blackouts and the potential for auroras.

The descent looked like a 'flying whirlpool' over Hawaii.

A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week triggered stunning aurora above Iceland.

After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized auroras may stretch even farther south than usual.

You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 13) from any spot with good internet access.

The resulting debris created several dozen craters, the largest nearly 230 feet across.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter won't be in view during impact time, but may have a follow-up plan to identify the crater grave on the moon.

Chang'e-5 T1 'completely burned up' in Earth's atmosphere shortly after launch, officials said.

The James Webb Space Telescope will study the weirdly flickering black hole at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope finished the first major stage in its long process of aligning the observatory's 18-segmented primary mirror.

The Sicilian volcano is 'smoking' and 'spitting lava,' one astronaut reports.

New evidence finds substantial water on Mars flowed as recently as 2 billion years ago.

Data from three space telescopes help tell the story of Eta Carinae's explosion.

Here's how to watch the events related to the James Webb Space Telescope's arrival.

You can watch a nearly mile-wide asteroid make its closest Earth approach for the next 200 years today. Here's how.

Adam McKay, creator of Netflix's popular satire-comedy movie "Don't Look Up," and climate scientist Kate Marvel talk why the world needs more films like the comet metaphor movie.

The pioneering work of physicist Stephen Hawking is honored in a Google Doodle today (Jan. 8).

A new video of solar streamers evokes the streaking stars seen during spacecraft hyperdrives in "Star Wars."

Comet Leonard may be sparking meteor showers at Venus this weekend during a relatively close approach of the comet to the planet.

The only total solar eclipse of 2021 was one few could see and this new photo from a spacecraft nearly 1 million miles from Earth shows why.

The generational observatory is nearly ready for space after years of delays.