Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...
A value called Bz indicates how far south the solar wind's magnetic field is pointing, which can predict how likely the northern lights are to occur.
The only way to see the curve of the Earth is to fly more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) above its surface. Ever since the ...
China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.
After seeing Elon Musk send thousands upon thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit, it’s only natural to wonder, why can ...
Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.
The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to ...
Occasionally, during explosions called coronal mass ejections, the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the solar ...
They are born towards the outer edges of the solar system and are known as long-period comets (LPCs). Such comets pose a risk ...
Our Solar System is located within a low-density region known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This bubble is filled with a ...
Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...