Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
Scientists investigated a weird feature in Parker Solar Probe data—and may have discovered what drives the plasma that pervades the solar system. ..
Scientists investigated a weird feature in Parker Solar Probe data—and may have discovered what drives the plasma that pervades the solar system. ..
Reports that the JWST killed the reigning cosmological model have been exaggerated. But there’s still much to learn from the distant galaxies it glimpses. ..
More than a decade of eyewitness data shows that fainter stars disappear as artificial light brightens the night sky. ..
Astrophysicists are using gravitational waves and light to trace the genealogies of dead stars and reveal the history of the universe. ..
The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them. ..
Biological amino acids could have celestial or terrestrial roots. An experiment simulated their formation in deep space—but the mystery isn’t solved ..
Two physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes. ..
Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that. ..
NASA’s new JWST space telescope has revealed some cosmic surprises, including galaxies that might have assembled earlier than previously thought. ..
An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood. ..