Science

Solar Energy Tracker Powers Down After 17 Years

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The Sun is Earth’s primary power source. Energy from the Sun, called solar...

Iron is everywhere in Earth's vicinity, suggest two decades of cluster data.

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Iron in the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere.

The Strange Orbits of ‘Tatooine’ Planetary Disks

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Two examples of aligned and misaligned protoplanetary disks around binary stars (circumbinary disks), observed with ALMA. Binary star...

Chandra Data Tests "Theory of Everything"

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X-ray Images of Perseus Cluster
Astronomers used Chandra to look for extraordinarily low-mass "axion-like" particles in the...

Quasar Tsunamis Rip Across Galaxies

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QUASAR OUTFLOWS ILLUSTRATION

Black Hole Team Discovers Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images

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Black Hole Team Discovers Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images

GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles

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Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off the Denmark Strait in the background....

A Star-Bursting Galaxy Born from the Collision of Dwarfs

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This 2.5 x 2.5 arcminute image shows VCC 848, a compact dwarf galaxy that scientists think formed from the merger of two smaller...