NASA's sun-watching IRIS spacecraft spotted the solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), surging off the sun on May 9. Video footage from IRIS shows the amazing explosion with a stream of charged particles and hot plasma spewing from the sun at speeds up to 1.5 million mph ...
Astronomers unsure what caused 'weird explosion' seen by Einstein Probe's X-ray eye Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record' Latest 'This idea that it takes like 250 years for Pluto to orbit the sun, I think that's just ...
Gamma-ray bursts are already among the most violent explosions that occur throughout the universe: In seconds, they can exudeas much energy as our sun will in its 12-billion-year lifetime. But astronomers say this one was at the top of its class. | Fast Company Newsletters “GRB 221009A...
Earth's magnetosphere is formed by the churning of metal inside our planet's molten core, and shields us from harmful cosmic rays as well as the electrically-charged solar wind that launches constantly from the sun. When radiation hits Earth's magnetosphere, it either gets...
Such a mission would not only help us lock down the asteroid's path through space, but also determine how that path would change through time, due to the effects of the Sun. It would also provide us with information about the asteroid's composition, wh...
It has been well studied as a potential staging orbit for deep space exploration using the Earth-Moon-Sun L1 and L2 Lagrange Points [10]. Altitudes above the lunar surface can vary from 2,000 to 75,000 km during each NRHO period [2]. A specific NRHO with a 9:2 lunar synodic ...
Credits: Ethos Space Diagram depicting the proposed location for a sunshade located at the L1 Sun-Earth Lagrange point (not to scale). Credits: Planetary Sunshade Foundation Ray trace showing that the more acute umbra shadow of a sunshade would not reach Earth while the diffuse penumbra is what...
The next morning, Jan. 24, 1985, Ellison sat in Seat 3 on the flight deck aboard the space shuttle Discovery as countdown began. On the roof of the launch control tower, just over the edge of the designated buffer zone, the Onizuka girls squinted against the Florida sun as 7.8...
NASA has awarded SpaceX more than $3.1 billion to develop the Crew Dragon capsule since the company won its first contract for the capsule in 2014. Development of Crew Dragon has suffered several setbacks over the years, includinggetting its parachute system workinganda capsule explosion dur...
and temperature as it orbits the sun. They even track "what's on fire around the Earth," Cook said, thanks to the carbon monoxide in the atmosphere. In addition to wildfires, this allows scientists to track the slash-and-burn tactics prevalent in the rainforests of South America and Africa...