From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc committee to review the responses from NASA’s Heliophysics program and the National Science Foundation to the 2013 ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Delving into the behaviors of the Sun and protecting humans at home and beyond are top priorities, according to the National Academies. Reading time 3 minutes The latest Decadal Survey for Solar and ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

Robyn Millan is a physicist and Margaret Anne and Edward Leede ’49 Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. She co-chaired the study committee that produced the recent National Academies report ...

The discovery could hold the key to the origin of supermassive black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hungriest known ...

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...