The Sun has never looked quite like this. With a quartet of small satellites flying in formation, NASA’s PUNCH mission is ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

As part of its latest mission selection and development process, NASA has also approved an extended Phase A study of the Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer (CMEx) mission, a $2 million, 12-month ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of stray sunlight and the moon taken on April 27 by the PUNCH mission's Narrow Field ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is just days away from coming as close to Earth as it will ever get. Here's how you can track ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or ...

Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during ...