It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and at all ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made an exciting discovery: frozen water, also known as crystalline ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in radiocarbon.

Researchers say crystalline water ice has been clearly found. It lies inside a dusty debris ring around a star 155 ...

A colossal solar filament over twice the distance between Earth and the moon erupted from the Sun's northern hemisphere ...

Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We've found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of an extraordinarily powerful solar storm that bombarded Earth 14,300 years ago, at the ...

The mission has a Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). The NFI snaps pictures of the corona around ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest solar storm ever recorded, striking Earth in 12350 BC — 500 times stronger than any ...

The sun has triggered Extreme Solar Particle Events only on a few occasions. Can humans witness one? Science & Tech Trending ...

Astronomers have long suspected the presence of frozen water, ever since in 2008 data from Nasa's retired Spitzer Space ...