Rocket launch today: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched three spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The mission includes...

NASA is closely monitoring the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is a growing dent in the Earth's magnetic field that allows charged solar part...

Scientists warn that extreme solar particle events, occurring every thousand years, could severely damage Earth's ozone layer, increasing U...

When the sun is active, spectacular eruptions called solar flares occur that sometimes also spew out energetic particles (called solar prot...

Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) While it's true that space radiation is one of the biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars, NASA said it i...

New York, Oct 1 (IANS) A solar event has sparked a global aurora at the Martian surface and caused the radiation level to double than highe...

New York, Nov 29 (IANS) A low-mass supernova -- a star exploding at the end of its life-cycle -- triggered the formation of our solar syste...

Microscopic dust particles found in meteoritic material on Earth were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the cre...

The project of Ligo India will not just help a new generation of physicists, but it will also bring precision engineering to the Indian ind...

Scientists have made trips to India to work with Indian colleagues, especially with three nodal institutes that would have primary responsi...

There's an even bigger worry than wind and rain: space weather. If a massive solar storm hit us, our technology would be wiped out.

We all know that major storms can wreak havoc, flooding cities and decimating infrastructure. But there's an even bigger worry than wind an...