What has eluded detection so far have been exosatellites: moons orbiting those remote planets. Our solar system is home to a ...

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 ...

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

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up after a nearly yearlong hibernation in the Kuiper Belt. - Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / illustration After 321 days of sleep, a NASA spacecraft ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should we look at first?

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 ...

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.

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.

Known as 'the day the sun brought darkness,' the blackout is emblematic of both the potential effects of solar activity on modern technologies and our relative unpreparedness for a major solar storm.

Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a ...

It's been an eventful week in science news. Astronauts on the ISS were briefly ordered to shelter in place after the discovery of an air leak in the transfer tunnel, NASA officially declared its MAVEN ...