NASA’s Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission has uncovered a phenomenon previously unseen in space. Scientists have detected a turbulent plasma current in Earth’s magnetosheath, a region between the ...

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet ...

Pegasi b Fellow Sarah Steele will spend three years at UC Santa Cruz working with Earth and planetary scientists to advance ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature lays out an intriguing concept for finding hard-to-spy exoplanets, especially those in the same overall category as Earth: a giant sunshade held in orbit ...

Researchers have found that magnetic fields buried deep inside stars can survive their entire lifetimes and later reappear on ...

The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its sideways rotation, intricate ring ...

We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which ...

April is Earth Month—a reminder that how and when we use energy can make a real environmental difference. Rocky Mountain Power Spokesperson Bianca Velasquez joined us with things homeowners can do.

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...

What to expect when visiting a stadium central to Texan sporting life as it prepares to host World Cup games in Groups E, F, ...

"The theme “Our Planet, Our Power” ultimately serves as a call to action," writes Sarah Loos of Women's March Rockford.

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