Latest articles by Conor Feehly
Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic interior.
Scientists have gathered new evidence to suggest icy comets indeed brought water to Earth, long ago.
NEOWISE team members have unveiled six images from the spacecraft's archives to celebrate the late space telescope's long and productive scientific life.
We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.
There are strange "zebra" patterns coming from the Crab Nebula, and the reason has to do with plasma refraction.
NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting spacecraft found the youngest transiting world yet, and the exoplanet's star has a wonky planetary disk.
The Hubble Space Telescope may have captured our Milky Way galaxy being a bit of a bully.
New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.
Astrophysicists have reconstructed the movement of stars within globular clusters to understand their evolution and origin.
The Arecibo Observatory collapsed in 2020, and a new report suggests a zinc decay was to blame for its death.
Earth observation technology is set to play a larger role in how agencies respond to natural disasters and weather events.
NASA's building a quiet fan to help future astronauts have some peace and quiet.
We're about to learn more about the solar wind, thanks to NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), which just arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship.
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.
An illustration of a cosmic airburst event.
Stellar-mass and supermassive black hole coronas have some similarities, and this is great news for black hole physicists.
Scientists say they've uncovered where the vast majority of Earth's meteorites came from.
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed 'inside-out' star formation in a galaxy just 700 million years after the Big Bang, fleshing out our understanding of the early universe.
Recently, an international team took the HULC moon camera out for a test drive in lunar-like conditions to improve the camera's design for Artemis moon missions.
In between the moon's solid core and external surface may swirl a partially molten layer of rock.
Free, open source climate data can help bridge the gap between information and environmental action.
