A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

NASA's new mission, Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), is scheduled to launch on February 27 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and the heliosphere, and help improve astronomy techniques.

an inner belt closer to the planet, and an outer belt encircling both. This is a good thing; it's sort of like a planetary defense system that protects our planet from direct bombardment by solar ...

and elemental ratios that indicate they could only have formed in the inner solar system. "Angrites are a small group of ancient meteorites that formed within the first few million years of solar ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The resulting ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona Sep. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing detailed maps of the Sun's ...

These events occur because all of the planets in the solar system orbit the sun on a relatively flat, disc-shaped plane — akin to cars on a racetrack. Each planet takes a different length of ...