Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop for three months as it unleashed powerful space weather. By combining views from two spacecraft--one near Earth and one ...
At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic -- a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts electricity. This unusual form is believed to shape the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune and may be the most common type of ...
Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating patterns. The effect comes from mixing two nearly identical compounds whose mismatched structures create magnetic tension at ...
Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn't strong enough to drive its stellar winds, overturning a long-standing theory. The dust grains around the star are simply too small to be pushed outward by light alone. ...
Scientists at Fermilab's MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision measurements showed neutrinos behaving exactly as ...
The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an extended version of Einstein's gravity, ...
Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole at its center. The jets stretch farther than the galaxy itself and spiral outward in a rare, never-before-seen pattern. NASA ...
Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The approach uses multiple sensors to collect raw light patterns independently, then synchronizes them later using computation. This ...
Crystals hidden in Australia's oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth's continents didn't begin growing until hundreds of millions of years after the planet itself formed. When scientists .. ...
Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse's strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant's vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ...