Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...
Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...
Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...
At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is passing safely through our solar system. Learn about its discovery, its distant path, and why ...
Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Experts tell Live Science how they are planning to observe ...
Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...
Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate and space scientist Chip Manchester designed a completely new simulation ...