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Satellites watch France's largest wildfire in 75 years burn an area larger than ParisSatellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.
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May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study revealsGPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.
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The US isn't prepared for a big solar storm, exercise findsA first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for major solar storms.
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What is aphantasia?A small percentage of the population has aphantasia, meaning they're unable to visualize using their mind's eye. Learn about this condition and the neuroscience behind it.
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How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.'
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Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on aurorasWe know very little about some parts of Earth's atmosphere.
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India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander fails to answer wake-up call, may be dead for goodThe Indian lunar lander and rover entered hibernation in early September.
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Watch thousands of lightning bolts crackle over Europe in stunning new satellite videoStunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.
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One of the largest solar storms ever detected just erupted on the far side of the sunVenus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.
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Jupiter's unearthly beauty revealed in gorgeous true-color image from Juno flybyNASA's Juno Jupiter explorer's new image reveals features in the turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter in the same colors a human observer would see them.
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Eerie, ripple-like rings around distant star in new James Webb image puzzle astronomersThe James Webb Space Telescope captured mysterious concentric rings around a distant star that astronomers are still working to explain.
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NASA spacecraft touched an asteroid, and the surface was 'fluffy'Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.
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New James Webb Space Telescope test image reveals deepest ever glimpse into the infrared universeAn engineering image acquired during testing of one of James Webb Space Telescope's instruments reveals hundreds of distant galaxies in the deepest ever glimpse into the infrared universe.
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A 12,000-mile-deep 'canyon of fire' has opened on the sun, spitting intense solar wind toward EarthFilaments of plasma escaped from a fiery canyon that opened on the sun's surface on Sunday (April 3) and might bring more auroras to Earth later this week.
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The sun let out another flare and the photos are stunningNASA captured another solar flare blasting from the same overactive sunspot that triggered radio blackouts and stunning aurora displays on Earth.
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Ash from Tonga volcano eruption reaches record altitude but climate cooling unlikelyThe volcanic eruption that destroyed a Polynesian island on Saturday injected ash into record altitude but won't cause any disruption to Earth's climate, experts said.
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James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deploymentThe James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.
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Solar storm may amp up northern lights before ChristmasA solar storm that erupted from the sun on Monday (Dec. 20) may boost northern lights displays around the north pole just ahead of Santa's trip this weekend.
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Astronomers capture sharpest images ever of Milky Way's heartThe deepest and sharpest images of the Milky Way's center have been obtained, enabling astronomers to estimate the mass of the black hole at the galaxy's heart with unmatched precision.
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Giant black hole inside a tiny satellite galaxy defies explanationA tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.
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This pair of merging black holes is the closest to Earth we've ever foundA pair of supermassive black holes that will soon become one has been discovered hiding in a nearby galaxy.
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Earth's earliest water may have come from solar wind and space rocksSamples from asteroid Itokawa collected by a Japanese space probe suggest that Earth's water may have come from the sun.
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TRAPPIST-1 solar system that's home to potentially habitable planets was not bombarded by rocks like early EarthEarthlike planets that dance in sync around a nearby dim star couldn't have been bombarded by space rocks in their early formative years like our planet was, a study suggests.
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NASA's DART mission has a sequel. How Europe's HERA will explore an asteroid impact aftermath.The Hera mission will follow NASA's DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DART's collision with the smaller of the two asteroids.
