The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...
Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
One of very few things in this life that we can bank on happening every single day: the sun rises in the east and sets in the ...
NOAA's new Compact Coronagraph, CCOR-1, onboard the GOES-19 satellite, has begun transmitting its first images, revealing ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...
The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet, but ...
"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new ...
Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...
How fast can a neutron star spin? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an ...
The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.