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The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 18 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...
Without too much interference from moonlight — the waxing moon will be only about a quarter full — the meteors should appear ...
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...
For centuries, we’ve been fascinated by the Sun, the fiery heart of our Solar System. But what does the Sun truly look like?
NASA's TRACERS mission, with its twin satellites launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, aims to unravel the mysteries of magnetic ...
Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar ...
Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...
Athena EPIC is poised to serve as a pathfinder for space startup NovaWurks and its sensorcraft architecture, demonstrating a ...