Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth's magnetic field.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Some of you may know me as the person that periodically reaches out in What’s Going On in Hollister as it pertains to upcoming opportunities to view the sky at the Historical Park in Tres Pinos.

A steady stream of particles forms a huge bubble around the Sun. Now, such a structure has been found around a Sun-like star ...

Astronomers have captured the first views of a young sun-like star blowing bubbles, offering a rare glimpse at how our solar ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. for the talk "Exploring the Sun's Alfvén Surface in the era of Parker Solar Probe" by Sam Badman, Center ...

A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) began its two-year primary science mission on February 1, 2026, to explore and map the boundaries of the heliosphere, the protective bubble ...

KINGSPORT — Bays Mountain Park debuted a new planetarium feature that takes visitors on a journey to the center of our solar system. The program, called "The Sun: Our Living Star," began Friday, and ...

2025 was a busy with advancements and a few setbacks in space science and the space industry. New missions continued to expand our understanding of the Sun, astronomers tracked a rare visitor from ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...