Space
- Researchers at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ will soon set their sights on the heliosphere, a massive bubble in space that surrounds our solar system and shields it from incoming radiation.
- Researchers at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ have discovered a new type of Martian aurora caused by protons plunging into the Red Planet's atmosphere.
- Two experiment payloads designed and built at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ are scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station in the early hours of June 29.
- An international team, including ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researchers, discovered key building blocks for life in icy plumes ejected from Saturn's moon Enceladus.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ scientists are part of an international team that may have answered a long-running mystery called the "missing baryon problem."
- A new study provides encouraging news about the habitability of Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our sun and a candidate for finding life outside of Earth.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researchers find that violent crashes may be more effective at activating black holes than more peaceful mergers.Â
- Bumper car-like interactions at the edges of our solar system, not a mysterious ninth planet, may explain the the dynamics of strange bodies called "detached objects," according to a new study.
- Researchers have discovered a single species of bacteria living in a volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was on the ground in Florida to watch the launch of NASA's latest mission to hunt for worlds outside of Earth's solar system.