The powdery snow that skiers and snowboarders love, especially on crystal clear days, plays a big role in how much your skin ...

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, powerful cataclysmic events unleash streams of high-energy particles. Among them are neutrinos—ghostly subatomic particles that travel unimpeded through space, ...

The slope and the direction that the slope faces, called aspect, also influences the intensity of the sun on a surface. North ...

To shield astronauts from dangerous space radiation, researchers are developing 3D-printed hydrogels—materials that absorb ...

A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

This rare event offers a unique opportunity to explore the universe, including probing the fundamental properties of the ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) made a groundbreaking observation by capturing the gamma-ray radiation from the tail region of the bow-shock pulsar wind nebula associated with ...

The planned system is to prevent astronauts from being exposed to the radiation rays during works on the moon in the future.

Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a ...