NASA plans to study the Northern Lights by launching rockets in Alaska. The goal is to understand the causes of auroras' ...

Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...

The best viewing for January's planetary parade is about 90 minutes after sunset, in as dark and clear a spot as you can find. Use binoculars or a telescope for an even better look. The alignment will ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

The sun is at the peak of its 11-year cycle. That means an uptick in solar flares will lead to more chances to see the northern lights over the next couple of years.

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a ...

A coronal mass ejection earlier this week may pull the northern lights to more northern U.S. states, forecasters said.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...