From the interior of the Sun to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun’s influence wanes, advances during the past decade in ...

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 ...

Space physics is the study of the natural phenomenon that occur in our solar system. Specifically, the sun, the particles and radiation it creates and how these affect the planets. This includes the ...

A pocket-sized, roughly $100 detector can reveal the invisible stream of cosmic particles constantly passing through Earth ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

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 ...

Bolstering its longstanding collaboration with NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder today enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space ...

It wasn’t the night sky that sparked the explorer spirit in Megan McArthur ’93. “I only made the connection between it and its possibilities when I first saw astronauts,” she says. “I realized that’s ...

Wormholes (as far as we know) only exist in the world of theoretical astrophysics and myriad sci-fi stories. But scientists are trying to piece together what such a celestial phenomenon might look ...

Wars in space will never be like Star Wars. “Starfighters” will not engage in dogfights with unlimited maneuverability and range. An actual conflict in space would be slow and deliberate, requiring ...