In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...
Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map ...
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) links quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares to dynamic ...
An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...
The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...