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

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

Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

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 ...

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

Aurora borealis is the scientific name for the atmospheric light show visible to the naked eye that can be viewed in far ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

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 ...

Just in time for the autumnal equinox, NOAA predicts Kp values in the middle range, which is enough to give much of the U.S.

Tonight’s auroral forecast predicts a Kp index of four, suggesting that northern lights may be visible as far south as ...