Solar storm warning systems could gain hours of advance time thanks to a completed UK-built magnetometer called MAGIC, which ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Astronomers directly imaged a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf 72 light-years away, making it the strongest candidate yet for the first known exomoon.

A nautical mile (NM) is most commonly associated with traveling through water, as is using knots to determine boat speed. However, both are used in airplanes, too. NMs are used to navigate the open ...

Blasts of gas travelling as fast as 20 million miles per hour are shooting out of the rarest stellar explosion in our galaxy ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made precise measurements of distances to dust clouds in the Milky Way’s spiral arms.

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of our own solar system when the sun dies.

Something we’ve never seen before is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy, astronomers say - Blasts of gas travelling ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is carrying chemical signatures that do not match anything formed in our solar system.

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line ...