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The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; we’re experiencing a particularly busy one right now.
The sun is expected to reach its solar maximum in 2025. Recent auroras suggest that the maximum may be bigger than predicted.
A centuries-old experiment shows the differences between classical and modern physics. Physicists use thought experiments like this to think about how objects move both on Earth and in the stars.
Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
In the absence of mathematical explanations, the universe would be irrational rather than unpredictable.
The English astronomer and navigator Thomas Harriot died in 1621, leaving behind 8,000 pages of notes containing a trove of unpublished scientific discoveries.
The beginnings of measuring fever go back more than 400 years.
Astronomy and astrology do not agree on the dates of the zodiac constellations.
Although the rings of Saturn may look like a permanent fixture of the planet, they are ever-changing. New analyses of the rings reveal how and when they were made, from what and whether they’ll last.
Anish Kapoor made “Cloud Gate”, a giant bean-shaped mirror in Chicago. Visitors play with the light in the city and its surroundings, where our future lays.
British space firms would get a shot in the arm from building a new GPS-style system if the UK is shut out of the EU’s programme.
Popes are not infallible, yet apologies are rare.
Earth is a relatively dry planet compared to some of the other ocean worlds in our Solar system. Life needs water so what about life on these other places?
People have always known science would advance faster with various incentives and rewards. As modern experimental science took off, these took the form of gifts and favors to and from wealthy elites.
One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts lauds Galileo as a hero who turned scientific consensus on its head. But the ‘Galileo gambit’ is just one weapon in the climate conspiracists’ arsenal.
We take our understanding of the solar system for granted, but it took centuries to figure out. The original writings of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo and others show how they sparked a revolution.
The ‘No Platform’ campaign from the National Union of Students is stifling debate on university campuses.
NASA has now formally started to pack its bags for the next big discovery mission, this time heading to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Last month NASA announced the instruments that will fly on this trip and…
The innermost of Jupiter’s moons has been mapped, showing a highly volatile volcanic surface. Discovered by Galileo over…
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