The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and ...

Engineers at UC Davis have built a remarkable device that creates power at night by tapping into something we rarely think about: the vast cold of outer space. Using a special type of Stirling engine, ...

On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 ...

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Michelle Hanlon is executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law and assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Imagine a network of orbiting satellites equipped with ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

HELSINKI — China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions to the solar system’s edge, suggesting the long-studied project is nearing formal approval. A lead paper on the design and key ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...