Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

Human perceptions hold the key to the future of solar geoengineering and other approaches to cool our warming planet.

NASA strives to understand the universe, whether that be the stars above us or Earth around us. One way NASA focuses on the ...

The new CdTe-on-glass technology offers a lighter, cheaper, and highly radiation-resistant alternative, targeting 20% ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The "gold foil" isn't gold or foil at all, but rather something called Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI), which is used as a ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

A team of UK researchers is working on lightweight cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar devices for space arrays. The aim is to ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...