The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

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A 17-year-old Columbia driver died in a crash on Alpine Road after his Ford Mustang left the road and hit a utility pole, ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Russell Cook, from Worthing, West Sussex, ran the length of Africa for charity, managing to cover more than 10,100 miles in ...