"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere will change the way geomagnetic storms impact Earth, with ...

On August 7, 2025, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission reached a pivotal milestone by successfully positioning all four of its spacecraft into their final science ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

Global rising temperatures continue to threaten the Himalayas, but researchers found that soot that enters the atmosphere has ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The JUNO mission has been NASA’s groundbreaking journey to uncover the mysteries of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

It’s finally time to watch one of the best meteor showers of the year: the brilliant display known as the Perseids.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ventured closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, plunging deep into its atmosphere ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Usually, a solar storm means that auroras will light up the sky. But more powerful storms, such as this ancient one, could ...