A team of scientists captured the sharpest-ever view of the sun's outer layer using a telescope in California. NBC News' Gadi ...

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NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose a model for the probability density function (pdf) of the elevation angle and the pdf of the attenuation conditioned to the elevation angle at the W-band and in all ...

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

A small team of planetary scientists, astrophysicists and space flight researchers affiliated with several institutions in ...

Then two years ago, the group predicted the world would pass that threshold between 2030 and 2035. Now, new data from the ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...

A new sponge-like material uses sunlight to harvest water from air, offering an efficient, low-cost solution for water ...

Dancing silently in Earth’s upper atmosphere, they form iridescent sheets of green and red (or sometimes blue and purple) light. And this week, across the northern United States—and even parts ...

Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic ...