NASA detects first “magnetic switchback” near Earth: an energetic change in your space shield that reveals new solar risks.

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm recently compressed Earth’s outer plasma shield so dramatically that satellites found themselves ...

NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists warn could trigger mass extinctions on Earth?

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...

Yes, we are once again facing a cold space race, only instead of the Soviet bloc, today it is the United States against China ...

I patiently waited in the lobby of my hotel in Fairbanks, trying to ignore that it was nearly 10 p.m. — normally when I’d be switching off my bedside lamp. Tonight, though, I wasn’t winding down. I ...

Discover how AI and machine learning are transforming spacecraft propulsion systems, from nuclear thermal engines to fusion ...

A super-charged solar storm known as the “Gannon event” forced the Earth’s plasmasphere—a doughnut-shaped shell of charged particles that normally envelops the planet—to shrink to roughly one-fifth of ...

This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space.

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...