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The Moon, with its calm and seemingly unchanging surface, holds many secrets, and one of the most puzzling is the magnetism ...
Scientist Sharmila Bhattacharya explains why cross-country collaboration is key to space missions such as Axiom-4 ...
Have you ever stepped outside during a relentless summer, felt the heat press in, and wondered where all the water has gone?
The Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments (FLARE) represents the next generation of research into fundamental ...
Scientists believe Michigan may be an abundant source of what could become the next big thing in carbon-free energy.
An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...
Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...
"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami Solanki, who leads the PHI instrument team from the Max Planck Institute for ...
ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a ...