By Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Artist’s illustration of the surface of a...

This panorama shows the area NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater’s rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4. NASA/JP...

By Sharmila Kuthunur An artist’s illustration of the aurora-like display on the sun. (Image credit: Sijie Yu) Auroras on Earth occur when storms from our sun engulf our planet — and in a rare cosmic...

Bitcoin Pioneer Chun Wang to Command SpaceX’s First Mission Over Earth’s Polar Regions An early Bitcoin miner from 2011 is set to lead a historic mission for SpaceX. By Nik Hoffman Chun Wang, the co-...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. While there were hints that the p...