NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed a historic milestone by traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it. The groundbreaking data it has collected is offering new insights into the ...

As surviving inhospitable trips go, NASA's Parker Solar Probe having to withstand more than a million degrees Fahrenheit as it approaches the Sun seems on paper like an insurmountable challenge. Turns ...

Equipped with cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the environment around the spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe—designed, built, and managed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun, about 16.9 ...

A preliminary analysis of data from the Gravity Probe B satellite has confirmed that the Earth's mass distorts the fabric of space and time as predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Plenty of research happens in labs, at computer stations, in libraries and coffee shops and in fields of many kinds. Some of it must happen far beyond the beaten path. Such is the case if you are a ...

A newly published study from the University of Iowa says that the Voyager probes have discovered an entirely new kind of "electron burst" related to coronal mass ejections on the sun. Share on ...

Ever since the nucleus of the atom was discovered in 1911, scientists have split, fused and smashed nuclei together to unravel its internal structure. Among the numerous researchers worldwide who are ...

Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 5, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 09 / 210930160454.htm ...

SEM image of an etched optical fibre containing the microspheres. (Courtesy: Michael Tanner, Herriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh) Lung diseases are one of the leading causes of ...

The Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering, located at 11 Oxford Street, houses experimental physics labs. A team of Harvard and Boston University physicists developed a new tool to measure ...