Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

According to the Met Office, people in the Shetland Islands could expect to see the Northern Lights from around 7pm this ...

Keep up to date with northern lights forecasts, alerts and geomagnetic storm warnings with our aurora forecast live blog. A fresh blast of solar wind is set to enhance aurora activity just in time for ...

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

For context, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, accelerates protons to an energy of 7 Tera-electronVolts (TeV). The neutrino that was detected had an energy of ...

Iowa joins other GOP-led states that have looked to ban the controversial "geoengineering" concept of counteracting climate ...

Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, as well as parts of Idaho and South Dakota, appear within the low-to-medium range of NOAA's ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

Toxics in the air from urban wildfires may include dioxins, asbestos, and lead. But testing, until recently, for these air ...

2024's gigantic solar storm gave the Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a "very long time", according to NASA ...