Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
Understanding how the Sun and its activity impact Earth and the solar system is important because solar storms affect the technology we use on Earth and in space. Now, a team of heliophysicists and ...
The magnetic field of the Sun plays a crucial role in shaping the heliosphere — the domain of the Sun — by accelerating the solar wind into a pair of jets As the Sun skims through the galaxy, it ...
Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...
On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors ...
A first-of-its kind AI-powered model attempts to better predict space weather and its impacts. The model — called Surya, for the Sanskrit word for "sun," was put together by NASA and IBM and trained ...
Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...
The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.