Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

NICER (left) is shown mounted to the International Space Station, and LEXI (right) is shown attached to the top of Firefly ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Earth’s magnetosphere is very strong, therefore, deflecting much of the solar wind. However, some of the particles will sneak through and travel toward the poles, where we see the brilliant ...

A total lunar eclipse best seen from North America on March 13-14, 2025, may reveal the northern lights, thanks to solar ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...