The sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

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

Skier Lenka Lanč captured a rare atmospheric phenomenon, the 'sun candle,' in Austria, which quickly went viral. The ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

MUNCIE, Ind - Walking into Minnetrista Museum & Gardens around dusk is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The stars begin to ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

A new study from the department of astronomy found that when one of the two stars in a binary star system accumulates mass ...