While the northern lights often steal the spotlight, their southern counterpart—aurora australis—offers an equally dazzling ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Precise Readings From a South Pole Telescope Can Change Everything Humans Know About Cosmos Better insights on the mysterious ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help prepare astronauts for environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience.

Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods ...

An unusual sight graced South Carolina skies the night of Oct. 10 -- the aurora borealis, or northern lights. Here's why they appeared this far south.

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms ...