Space

Earth’s radiation belts may be far less “random” than they appear. A new study suggests that energetic particles trapped by...

Lasers are everywhere: they carry data through fiber-optic networks, guide precision measurements, scan products in factories and power medical devices....

The Sun’s Surface Is Swirling: Inouye Telescope Reveals Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability in Unprecedented Detail The Sun’s surface has just yielded one...

For decades, astronomers have suspected that the spin of a galaxy is not merely a product of its later history,...

Kiwifruit is offering scientists a new view of how a plant’s genome works—not as a linear sequence of DNA, but...

COSPAR Names 2026 Space Science Award Winners and Honors Them With Minor Planets The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) will...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has released its twentieth data collection, opening an unprecedented window onto the feeding, growing and...

The Sun’s fast solar wind may be powered by a hidden population of waves that has been difficult to observe...

Mars may be losing its atmosphere through a process that looks surprisingly familiar: the same kind of rolling instability that...

Scientists say the Moon’s hidden ice could be detected not by drilling first, but by listening for the way seismic...