In a little over 5 months the university of iowa will be launching it's tracers mission which currently stands as the largest grant ever awarded to the universi ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

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The full moon this week will be a spectacular Beaver Supermoon—the last in a series of four supermoons this year. Here's how ...

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Footage from camera traps in the undergrowth showed small mammals, such as rodents and armadillos, seemed to avoid predators ...

The TRACERS mission will specifically focus on magnetic reconnection when activity from the sun interacts with Earth’s ...

Last week Elon Musk said in one of his 100-plus daily tweets that “This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ultimately need greater than petabit/sec connectivity.” Petabit/second ...

GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. These satellites require a station on Earth to keep their ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...