Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight ...

The instrument was used to measure low-energy charged particles, including ions, electrons, cosmic rays originating from our ...

Scotch tape, that transparent, sticky hero of offices everywhere, could be a NASA superstar as well. The rolled-up adhesive tape is the inspiration behind a novel idea for a completely new kind of ...

Toyota's annus horribilis can be traced, in part, to a rash of incidents where Toyota vehicles accelerated by themselves, causing drivers to lose control and crash. More than 100 deaths have been ...

A new study from NASA reveals that a supernova observed nearly two millennia ago expanded inside a pre-formed cosmic cavity, offering strong evidence about the type of stellar explosion that created ...

(Phys.org)—During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's ...

The Universe is a very violent place, and one truly gets a sense of that when looking at short gamma-ray bursts (GRB). That would be intense and brief explosions in space that last just about two ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric temperatures ranging from 10,000 to 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface ...