Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

Magnetars are neutron stars characterized by some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe, as well as their intense X-ray and gamma-ray emissions and outbursts. An international team ...

People up late tonight could catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights according to the Met Office, with those in Scotland and ...

This activity is connected to a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, or CME, that left the Sun on Friday. According to SWPC’s ...

ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

Recently, the Aditya-L1 mission captured a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower solar atmosphere. What is a solar flare? In ...

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams returned home safely on March 18 after being stranded on the International ...

The EZIE mission’s satellites will investigate auroral electrojets and their role in space weather disturbances.

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...