A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense ...

Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling ...

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical discharges generated by dusty gusts.

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...

As the Space Coast waits to learn who will lead NASA through President Donald Trump's second term, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, unleashed a barrage of criticism this week against ...

Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new mission has launched to help astronomers better understand it. Created by the solar wind, a ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...