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June 2024 featured record-breaking heat and billion-dollar weather disasters, NOAA says
The U.S. just suffered its second-hottest June in 130 years. The month also featured four new billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
21 'one-in-a-million' extreme dead stars found hiding around sun-like stars
Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.
Scientists waited ages to find a 'missing link' black hole — then stumbled upon 2
A missing link black hole that sits in the mass gap between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes is "parked" right by the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Aurora alert: Possible geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights as far south as New York
Northern lights could be visible over some northern and upper Midwest states on July 24. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.
Watch two plumes of 'dark' plasma explode from the sun and send solar storm towards Earth (video)
Two loops of "dark" plasma exploded from the sun on July 21, sending a stream of plasma and magnetic field known as a coronal mass ejection barreling towards Earth.
Solar storm forecasts could soon get a big boost. Here's how.
Scientists have figured out a way to estimate the speed of a coronal mass ejection before it even leaves the sun, potentially providing a big boost to space weather forecasts.
Europe on the moon: ESA targeting 2031 for 1st 'Argonaut' lunar lander mission
The first robotic Argonaut moon landing mission is targeted for 2031, the European Space Agency noted in a document published last week.
'A dark day for lunar science:' Scientists shocked as NASA cancels VIPER moon rover
Lunar scientists are stunned by NASA's decision to cancel the ice-hunting VIPER rover and what it means for our understanding of the moon.
NASA X-ray telescope 'weighs' the closest rapidly spinning dead star to Earth
NASA's ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.
Before plunging to its death, NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan
Seven years ago, the Cassini mission ended when the spacecraft dramatically crashed into Saturn, but the data it collected is still delivering results, revealing the secrets of Titan's oceans.
