A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the locations of various elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), and iron ...

As a result, the star is much more active. Its magnetic fields become twisted, develop tension, and eventually snap, sending streams of energy and particles outward in what astronomers observe as ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC ... of the SMC near the center of NGC 346, a star cluster that is home to dozens of ...

Raytheon UK's Low-Earth Orbit Optical Camera Installation (LOCI) back-end software, called LOCI Command and Control, has ...

Due to these properties, just a spoonful of neutron star material weighs as much as Mount Everest. The other key characteristic of neutron stars is their magnetic field. During neutron star ...