The Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, and is mostly seen in high ...

We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

SpaceX has launched a privately funded space mission over Earth's poles. This is the first human spaceflight to fly over the ...

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A promising opportunity to spot the northern lights arises late Saturday through the early morning hours on Sunday in Michigan. According to the Space Weather Prediction ...

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...

NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar ...

High-energy particle accelerators, such as CERN’s Proton Synchrotron and Brookhaven’s Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, were ...

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future ...

A negative measurement of duration has added a new level of strangeness. In the car analogy, Tony Soprano is spending less ...