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There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image.

If there's one thing astronauts know, it's "practice, practice, practice."

Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies and other organisms to orbit to learn more about the health effects of spaceflight.

Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.

A fireball exploded into life in the skies above Japan on Aug. 19, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting close to the horizon.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, not the "smorgasbord of priorities," like climate science, the agency has been directing its resources.

“You scoured the earth for a bad pic of Zendaya."

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) and NASA unveiled a new artificial intelligence foundation model on Wednesday, designed to analyze solar data and enhance space weather forecasting. The model, named Surya after the Sanskrit word for the Sun, aims to provide earlier and more accurate predictions of solar activity that could…

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.