On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

Architecture, biology, and physics professors worked together. Architects unveil shape-shifting design that will redefine future housing: 'Transformational environments' first appeared on The Cool ...

The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, ...

On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part of the star from our view.

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

A partial solar eclipse on Saturday will make it look as if the moon has taken a bite out of the sun over parts of North ...

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Beyond Neptune, a crowd of frozen bits and pieces lingers in the Kuiper Belt, yet that is only the start of our Sun’s extended family. Farther out – about 9.3 trillion miles away – sits the Oort Cloud ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

Any errors in how Vulkan is used can result in a crash. This project provides Vulkan validation layers that can be enabled to assist development by enabling developers to verify their applications ...