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Milky Way halo filled with doughnut-shaped magnetic fields: study
South China Morning Post· 7 days agoThe study will help determine the large-scale structure of magnetic fields in our galaxy, something...
A billionaire hopes to upgrade the Hubble Telescope on a private SpaceX mission, but could it really...
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJared Isaacman, the billionaire funder and commander of the Polaris Program missions, spoke on...
The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Jupiter
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoIn 1610, Galileo Galilei observed Jupiter through his telescope and discovered four large moons. The...
Sun's magnetic field may originate closer to the solar surface
AOL· 4 days agoThe sun's magnetic field, which causes solar storms like the one that hit Earth this month and produced beautiful auroras, may originate at shallower depths in the star's ...
Straight Out of Sci-Fi: NASA Advances Six Pioneering Space Technologies for Tomorrow
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoNASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program is advancing six "‘science fiction-like" space technology projects, including a lunar railway and a fluid telescope. Six visionary ...
Space mysteries: Do all planets have magnetic fields?
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"Earth has maintained both a magnetic field and habitable surface for billions of years," O'Rourke...
Next-Generation Cosmic Observatory Hits South Pole Stumbling Block
Scientific American· 3 days agoScientists are reeling from an unexpected blow after news that a much anticipated future...
Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action - NASA
NASA· 5 days agoA team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoThis pioneering technique makes use of tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart as a...
US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon
Ars Technica· 3 days ago"Just last week, on May 16, Russia launched a satellite into low-Earth orbit that the United States...