In searching for planets and studying their stars, I’ve had the privilege to use some of the world’s great telescopes. However, our team has recently turned to an even larger system to study the ...

The vibrant auroras from earlier this year have a darker side that scientists are still uncovering. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...

An underlying mechanism might be responsible. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth seems to shake more after intense cosmic ...

A new algorithm has been developed to simultaneously estimate multiple shortwave radiation components using data from China's Fengyun-3F satellite. This innovative approach significantly improves the ...

A spacecraft en route to spy on Jupiter and its moons has snapped a rare and excitingly high-definition picture of the Earth's radiation belt. The European Space Agency's Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons ...

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected ...

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Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: ...

A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet’s severe weather, ...

Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black hole may be coming from a blob of matter whipping around at 30% the speed of light. When you ...