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 ...

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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 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 ...

The researchers used real-time data from the MMS, THEMIS, and ARTEMIS missions about how the solar wind interacted with the earth’s magnetosphere and about the upstream plasma environment near ...

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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 ...