Tag: space

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space’s most confounding substance — dark matter.

The first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, due to a helium leak in its […]

Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. “People often asked me whether I remembered where I was when I […]

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet’s Great Red Spot, giving astronomers a rare view of this […]

A monster sunspot on the sun’s surface just won’t quit, erupting yet again this week with a whopping X8.7-class solar flare on Tuesday (May 14).

An extreme (G5) geomagnetic storm hit Earth last weekend, delighting viewers as far south as Florida with green and red curtains of light. The post […]

SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.

Described as being like “Io on steroids,” a newly discovered exoplanet is the victim of a tug of war between its neighboring planets and its […]

Intense solar activity generated the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 on Friday (May 10), and the action could continue into this week. Here’s how […]

A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects […]