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Pushing scientists closer than ever to understanding the Big Bang, physicists have finally measured the temperature of ...

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A breakthrough in solar physics now explains how dense clumps of plasma condense and fall through the Sun’s corona during powerful flares — behaviour long considered puzzling by astrophysicists.Luke ...

A team of astronomers and Jordanian astronomy enthusiasts, using smart and simple computerized telescopes in Jordan, the UAE, ...

The spacecraft in question are NASA’s Europa Clipper, going to the eponymous icy moon of Jupiter, and the European Space ...

Deep in outer space, astronomers have discovered another "odd radio circle" — the latest in a short list of mysterious rings ...

The fall sky-gazing season is officially in full swing with the Orionid meteor shower peak in October and comet A6 Lemmon ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...