The Alpha Centauri star system is just 4.2465 light-years away – a relative hop, skip, and a jump in a galaxy 100,000 light-years across. Wouldn't it be great to visit? Not just with a fleet of ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...
NASA's Closest Look at the Sun Left Everyone With Questions ...
Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...
Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...
The United Launch Alliance is planning for the Vulcan to become its workhorse rocket. It faces its biggest test yet in its ...
Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially ...
"Exploring the Sun's Alfvén Surface in the era of Parker Solar Probe" by Sam Badman, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Abstract: The geometry of a star's Alfvén surface determines ...
Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...
How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A member of the public looks at Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, while standing on a ...