Billionaires are having a moment with space right now. Elon Musk with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, even Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic — all the rich folks are …
NEW DELHI: Nasa has once again been named the best place to work in the federal government, marking the 12th consecutive year it has earned this distinction. The Partnership for …
NEW DELHI: Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has once again provided us with breathtaking images, this time capturing the tiny moon Amalthea passing in front of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The images, …
An active Sun, right, that caused the strong aurora lights, left. The many photos taken of the spectacular aurora lights that lit up the skies of North America and Europe …
NEW DELHI: Astronomers have unveiled the discovery of a third planet within the Kepler-47 system, marking it as the most intriguing of binary-star systems. This new find, made using data …
CAPE CANAVERAL: The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly two decades on Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places.“Not …
For many NASA scientists, flying aboard a decked-out Douglas DC-8 plane provided them some unique glimpses of Earth: the Moai on Easter Island, Central Park in New York and Mount …
NEW DELHI: Nasa is preparing to send astronauts back to the moon and has announced its plan to construct first lunar railway system, known as FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a …
WASHINGTON: The first crewed launch of Boeing‘s Starliner spaceship to the International Space Station has been postponed again due to a technical snafu, the company said Tuesday.The next attempt will …
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have …