Space Exploration

NASA has actually reported a substantial solar flare being discharged by the Sun, the most effective since 2006, which has already triggered some radio blackouts on Earth– and it may cause aurora visible as far south as London.The flare was one of two produced by the Sun yesterday early morning(September …

Early this morning (Sept. 6) the sun released 2 powerful solar flares– the second was the most effective in more than a decade. Read More

Grab a warm coat and prepare yourself to take a trip far from synthetic lights. Thanks to the ,”Rodney Viereck from the Area Weather Prediction Center at NOAA told IFLScience.” A small error in the size and instructions estimates will have a huge effect on how big a storm we …

  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is currently on its way to an asteroid to do some very cool science, but it has to make a quick stop by Earth first. As the probe executes a flyby of its home planet in the next few weeks, astronomers around the world will be …

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, has officially approved the naming of 14 features on the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. Pluto’s first official surface-feature names are marked on this map, compiled from images and data gathered by …

  The US Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is set to go off on another secret mission in space, but its trip into space will come courtesy of a new partner: SpaceX. The launch is currently scheduled for September 7th at Cape Canaveral, just days ahead of the potential …

Astronomers working with NASA’s 230-foot (70-m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, CA, have released the first radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (3122) Florence. The images show the asteroid has two small moons. This radar image shows the near-Earth asteroid Florence and its two moons. Image credit: NASA / …

New observations from Akatsuki, a robotic spacecraft launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2010 to orbit Venus, have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower-to-middle cloud layer of the planet’s hostile atmosphere. An illustration of JAXA’s Akatsuki orbiter successfully tracking lower-altitude clouds during the night with its …

NASA’s Cassini robotic orbiter captured this view of Saturn’s north polar vortex on April 26, 2017, the day it began its Grand Finale, a daring series of 22 weekly dives between the gas giant and its rings. Saturn’s north polar region is pictured in great detail in this Cassini image …

The red supergiant star Antares is one of the brightest objects in the sky, and that makes it an attractive target for astronomers. Indeed, an international team of scientists has acquired an incredibly detailed image of the star — it’s the best image ever of a star outside our solar …