NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) satellites, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Friday, August 24* at 4:08 a.m.…
Surrounding our planet like vast invisible donuts (the ones with the hole, not the jelly-filled kind) are the Van Allen…
At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no…
[/caption] It might sound obvious to anyone who's ever played a video game in the past thirty years, but plasma…
[/caption] An enormous triangular hole in the Sun's corona was captured earlier today by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above…
[/caption] During the 1950s and just before the great "Space Race" began, scientists like Kristian Birkeland, Carl Stormer, and Nicholas…
[/caption] Discovered by the Cassini mission, Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR) has been something of an enigma to astronomers. According to…
[/caption] Anyone who took elementary science in grade school recalls the lesson about the three states of matter, right? That…
Solid, liquid, gas … those are the states of matter we're thoroughly familiar with, but what makes for a state…