A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

While it’s hard to see the solar wind directly in photos once it leaves the corona, we can measure the gas directly with instruments in space. Scientists have recently gotten up ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

NASA's IMAP mission aims to map the heliosphere, study solar wind, and improve space weather forecasting for Earth's ...

Scientists propose a bold new dark matter candidate: the superheavy, charged gravitino, detectable in experiments like JUNO ...

Four proposed sun-gazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study ...

Space weather forecasting is decades behind Earth’s meteorology. Learn what makes auroras so unpredictable—and the real-time ...

The finding could improve predictions for wildfire smoke, extreme rainfall, pharmaceutical development and more.

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

After decades of exploring, NASA's Voyager 1 hit the edge of the solar system and passed through a great "wall of fire," ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...