Space weather can cause both beautiful auroras and infrastructure challenges – 5 essential reads on protecting life and technology

A massive solar flare could seriously disrupt life on Earth – but new NASA missions and others in development will help ...
CNET

This Is the Biggest 2D Map of the Universe. Here’s How to Use It

The map covers 75% of the sky, and you can explore all sorts of cool celestial objects once you know where to look.

How to cool buildings on the cheap

London buses have a cool secret. Viewed from above, they are often white, not red. This heat-reduction measure, which began ...

Lava-Covered Planets Are Defying a Key Rule of Planetary Science

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that intense radiation should strip away their atmospheres. Yet several of these scorching, lava-covered worlds still retain thick gaseous envelopes, ...

Small, icy worlds in the outer solar system barely changed since birth

That pattern backs a "born big" view of planet construction. In the early solar system, clouds of pebble‑size material in the ...
Scientific American

This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way ...

Hubble and Webb find that far-out solar system objects 'remember' the past

For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the ...