NASA’s Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries.
In a new study, a team of physicists led by the...
Scientists find most habitable region on Mars
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of...
Earth is faster, closer to supermassive black hole in new map of galaxy
Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
But...
New tech can get oxygen, fuel from Mars’s salty water
When it comes to water and Mars, there's good news and not-so-good news.
The good news: there's water on Mars! The not-so-good news?
There's water on...
Scientists discover Earth-like stellar wind for Proxima Centauri c
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, and its planet, Proxima Cen b ("Proxima b"), lies in its habitable zone.
This makes the...
Scientists predict a large sunspot for Thanksgiving
Scientists at the National Solar Observatory have predicted the emergence of a new sunspot group just in time for Thanksgiving.
Using a technique called helioseismology,...
Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds
The spiral-shaped disc of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy...
Scientists detect birth of magnetar from colossal collision for the first time
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the sun will produce...
Scientists detect newborn jets in distant galaxies
Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores...
Scientists discover ancient megaflood on Mars’ equator
In a new study, scientists find that floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago.
This...