The Kharkovchanka: a mobile fortress that braved the icy extremes of Antarctica. Built by the USSR to outdo American efforts, ...

As on Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field converges at its poles, and as on Earth, this concentration of magnetic field lines drives charged particles toward the polar regions, where ...

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the mass of ...

The most powerful cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever detected slamming into Earth's atmosphere carry energies so high ...

While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, ...

The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

Friday, September 27, 2024: This satellite image from ... the International Space Station, capturing gorgeous views of auroras over Earth, meteors exploding in our atmosphere and star trails ...

The most energetic cosmic rays are accelerated in extremely energetic events, like around supermassive black holes. But those ...

New research reports the most powerful cosmic rays ever detected. Because the rays lose energy as they travel through space, ...

The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots ...

Debris from the recently launched Long March-7 Y9 carrier rocket fell back to Earth late on Sunday night, with the vast ...

Four new images show our nearest star in dazzling detail, with each one made up of 25 shots observed by the Solar Orbiter in ...