NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, known as IBEX, has spent more than a decade mapping an invisible structure of magnetic fields and charged particles that envelops the solar system far beyond ...

Ever wondered why certain streets feel a few degrees warmer or why a random hillside stays foggy while the valley below bakes under sun? These are microclimates, and they're way stranger than most ...

Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton delivers the kind of natural beauty that makes you do a double-take at your GPS coordinates, wondering if you’ve somehow teleported to a different state ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...