Photographer Christy Turner captured the Aurora Borealis on Sunday near Calgary, Alberta. Christy Turner/Spaceweather.com A blast of charged particles from the sun created an unexpected geomagnetic… [+1802 chars]
Electron microscopy enables researchers to visualize tiny objects such as viruses, the fine structures of semiconductor devices, and even atoms arranged on a material surface. Focusing down the elect… [+2512 chars]
Enlarge/ A Pythom Space video from March 19 shows employees reacting to an expanding cloud of dust and exhaust. 727 with 282 posters participating, including story author There's a small rocket com… [+3638 chars]
A NASA recording has revealed that Mars has two speeds of sound. The audio was recorded using microphones on the car-sized Mars Perseverance rover which was launched from Florida's Space Coast as pa… [+1401 chars]
The "corpse" of a sunspot exploded Monday (April 11), triggering a mass ejection of solar material that is headed in Earth's direction. The explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, … [+4092 chars]
Among the many experiments that crewmembers on the all-private Ax-1 mission will take part in during their one-week stay on the International Space Station is one that could help NASA build larger sp… [+3030 chars]
A fireball that blazed through the skies over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was actually a fast-moving object from another star system, according to a recent memo (opens in new tab) released by the U.S.… [+2759 chars]
After decades worth of research, scientists came to know that the universe emerged after the big bang about 14 billion years ago and has been undergoing rapid expansion ever since. Given that we alre… [+2095 chars]
Scientists have recently begun spying on Europe's most active volcano using an unusual new surveillance device: fiber-optic cables. Researchers revealed how they utilized a technology known as distr… [+3198 chars]
On Feb. 14, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is in the first few months of its journey to the Trojan asteroids, obtained a series of calibration images with its four visible-light cameras. The first tes… [+1801 chars]
Title:Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing Authors: D. Specht, R. Poleski, M.T. Penny, E. Kerins, I. McDonald, Chung-Uk Lee, A. Udalski, I.A. Bond… [+8248 chars]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. An analysis of ocean water around the world has uncovered a trove of previously undiscovered viruses, researchers have reported. An international team of researchers tracked ocea… [+1679 chars]
