A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella ...

Just days ago the moon traveled directly between Earth and the sun in what was the first solar eclipse of the year, producing ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory simulated one million satellite orbits in the vast stretch of space ...

Longtime readers may remember a proposal to recreate the experience of standing on the the Moon inside a giant spherical ...

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is heating up after SpaceX ( SPACE) announced a surprising shift in ...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently said that if anyone can build the world's fastest AI infrastructure, it's Elon Musk. Now, ...

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also called regolith, on a pathway created by the Earth’s magnetic field. These ...

Saturn and the moon will appear close together in the night sky on Friday, January 23. This celestial event, known as a conjunction, occurs when two astronomical bodies seem near each other from Earth ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...