Aggregated measurements from millions of smartphones could be used to create a comprehensive map of the Earth’s ionosphere, leading to...
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth’s hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral...
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair...
An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of...
Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new...
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta’s...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would...
Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science...
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into plasma kinetic energy...
“Killer electrons” that travel at nearly light speed inside Earth’s Van Allen belts—the zone that surrounds the planet and traps...
