Space
During post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars can be flung into supermassive black holes and destroyed at a rate of one per year.
NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by Ãå±±½ûµØ, will study space weather in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Rising air during global dust storms on Mars hoists water vapor high in the the planet's atmosphere, new research shows.
Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" not once, but twice.
A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts is now solved, thanks to a satellite built and operated by students.
A solar instrument package designed to help monitor the planet's climate is now set for launch Dec. 12 aboard a SpaceX rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Â
A Ãå±±½ûµØ team will build a tiny orbiting satellite to study the evaporating atmospheres of gigantic "hot Jupiters," gaseous planets orbiting scorchingly close to parent stars. Watch the video.
Few have heard of Hisako Koyama, but her work places her among the top solar observers of the past four centuries, alongside names like Galileo, according to new research.
The announcement yesterday that international scientists had discovered the first-ever evidence of the collision of two neutron stars rocked well beyond the science world. Watch the video.
An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions, including the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft.