The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

As one of five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of Magnetospheres is tasked ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — At 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on ...

This story has been updated to reflect a new scheduled launch time, Weds., Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket will break the bonds of gravity while carrying the Interstellar Mapping ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

As physicists search for a theory of quantum gravity, new results show that classical gravity can still interact with quantum fields to allow matter to become entangled. When you purchase through ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

Flashes like Cherenkov radiation in space may reveal negative-energy ghosts, hinting at gaps in gravity theories.

If ever spotted in the emptiness of space, according to theoretical physicist Eugeny Babichev of the University of ...