A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History combines satellite observations and historical data ...

DCU’s Dr David Long has a flare for predicting space weather. Earlier this year, the strongest solar storm in two decades lit ...

Solar Technology: Innovative Light-Harvesting System Works Very Efficiently June 26, 2024 — Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

Data from ESA’s Solar Orbiter and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have revealed that large fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field ...

A truck-sized rock, named 2024 PT5, will fall into Earth’s orbit from September 29 to November 25, and return in 2055 ...

Unfortunately, scientists are still unsure if life could survive there for long. Some argue that red dwarf suns are too ...

China to launch near-Earth asteroid sample return mission in 2025 China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a ...

The anomaly, seen in several other spacecraft since then, remains an unexplained mystery to this day. In missions to visit ...

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