Unexpected solar activity caused Binar satellites to re-enter early, illustrating challenges of solar weather in low orbit.

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

Unpredictable solar activity is causing satellites to fall to Earth. Intense solar phenomena contributed to the premature end ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Avi Loeb's controversial claim that a recent fireball resulted from an interstellar object is taking a hammering.

Iceland’s Transition Labs and UK-based Space Solar are developing a solar plant in space that is expected to power 1,500 to 3 ...

The U.K. based aerospace company, Space Solar, plans to launch its space-based solar power plant by 2030 to deliver clean ...

Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3's ...