Superconductors have diverse applications, including MRI machines, maglev trains, power transmission, and fusion reactors.

The Parker Solar Probe is designed to explore the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere that's millions of degrees hotter than ...

The Rosetta-Philae spacecraft successfully touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, uncovering remarkable findings ...

So, we decide to play interplanetary gardener and dump Earth's water on Mars. At first, it might seem like a surefire way to ...

Space weather. It refers to how solar eruptions affect Earth. The Earth’s magnetic field deflects most of this energy, but ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Across much of the animal kingdom, the meanings behind some creatures’ gestures are reserved only for other members of their species. A person watching a honeybee’s waggle dance would not understand ...

Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

If Liu and colleagues are correct, chorus waves could form nearly anywhere in space, and not just in places where the magnetic field is neat and undistorted by solar wind. That means we should be ...