Massive explosions on the sun have triggered warnings of geomagnetic storms that could create dazzling auroras in the northern United...
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation...
The dense peaks in the wavelength distribution graph observed in a Lyman-Alpha forest indeed resemble many small trees. Each of...
Imagine a spaceship driven not by engines, but by compressing the spacetime in front of it. That’s the realm of...
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has twice transmitted a laser pulse to a cookie-sized retroreflector aboard JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration...
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a researcher from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a...
Almost 55 years after the launch of Apollo 11—the first mission to land humans on the moon—scientists have found evidence...
A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first maneuver...
What is dark matter? Even for astrophysicists, it’s a question that remains unanswered. These invisible particles make up most of...
The surface of Uranus’ moon Ariel is coated with a significant amount of carbon dioxide ice, especially on its “trailing...
A gentle rumble ran under Ngan Huang’s feet as a rocket carrying her research—live, human muscle cells grown on scaffolds...
Using modern techniques, researchers have re-examined Johannes Kepler’s half-forgotten sunspot drawings and revealed previously-hidden information about the solar cycles before...
