Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white...
Get ready for a meteor shower doubleheader. The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks in late July. And this year,...
In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally...
The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the...
A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of...
Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky...
Sealed inside a habitat in Texas and cut off from the outside world for over a year, Kelly Haston was...
By diving into the sun’s corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field...
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...
