The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

The lithium batteries used in most solar installations in South Africa are highly unlikely to cause trouble, but there are ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of climate ... than Earth's mass—may have swept through our solar system about 4 billion years in the past.

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...