The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small satellite already orbiting Earth. IBEX has special instruments gathering ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

Future There are galaxies far, far away but how big is our own solar system? Come with us... Earth Troposphere Troposphere Stratosphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Start of Low Earth Orbit Mesosphere ...

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...