Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say.
To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old.
The finding suggests a pair of gigantic Fermi bubbles in our galaxy formed after the dinosaurs.
The White House's 2026 budget proposal threatens dozens of active and upcoming science missions designed to explore the cosmos.
After nearly a year of trying to fix the ill-fated spacecraft, NASA says Starliner is set for a cargo mission in 2026.
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake triggered a landslide, a dam, and an ancient lake.
The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
Named Ammonite, the distant object casts doubt on the existence of the elusive Planet Nine.
Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.
The discovery challenges findings made by Voyager 2, which collected data suggesting Uranus, unlike other giant planets in the solar system, didn’t have an internal heat source.
If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.
The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the solar system.
Meteorite NWA 16788 traveled roughly 140 million miles to get here, crash-landing in the Sahara Desert.
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological model.
Shiyan-28B finally appeared in an unexpectedly low orbit, but its mission remains unclear.
If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, these beings may already know where we live.
Images from the Parker Solar Probe’s record-setting pass by the Sun last year are finally available.
The object appears to be older than our solar system itself.
Scientists still have much to learn about the potentially life-saving "kinetic impactor technique."
