Imagine looking up on a dark winter night to see rippling ribbons of green and purple light dancing across the sky. The ...

The Inouye Solar Telescope captured magnetic, silk-like "stripes" on the solar surface called photospheric striations.

Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of Sirius Black who is Harry Potter’s godfather.

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

Space weather experts warn that a moderate-strength geomagnetic storm could hit Earth Friday or Saturday (Aug. 8 or 9) — ...

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The ...

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur orbital launch vehicle will undertake its first National Security Space Launch (NSSL) ...

There, over a thousand passengers who have been living in the airborne habitat (the descendants of a crew that launched from ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...