Memories of solar impact from seven ESA spacecraft have been collected and analyzed in a first-of-its-kind study to better understand the radiation environment in space. Huge amounts of engineering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Horizons data shows the solar wind slows 13% to 15% in the outer heliosphere as it picks up interstellar material. (CREDIT: ...

When you’re managing 400-plus solar sites scattered across multiple states, a single transformer failure can cost thousands of dollars per day in lost revenue. But which transformer? At which of your ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or ...

Key takeaway: What is 3I/ATLAS? This comet, discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), was first detected 420 million miles from the sun on July 1. The Hubble ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is moving through a region where the Sun’s ...