Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

Researchers have developed a precision magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response ...

New research shows Uranus’ fierce radiation belts were a short-lived blast from a solar storm, reshaping what Voyager 2 ...

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A rare magnetic phenomenon, once thought confined to the sun’s outer atmosphere, has been seen to twist its way through Earth ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

For decades, scientists have believed that Uranus and Neptune are “ice giants,” planets made mostly of icy materials like ...