There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above your head at any given time. These high-energy particles, which can travel ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature ... or metallic body that orbits a star. Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids ...

Thus young Earth, Ciesla theorizes, was infused with organic molecules fabricated in space. Additional organic ... that settled into an asteroid belt 158 million miles from Earth.

They can warp space and time and rip entire ... Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to billions of icy objects, like comets and ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space ... Kuiper Belt form in a similar way is still ...

Relativistic electrons in the outer Van Allen belt wreak ... favoured in regions of low particle density where the phase velocity of the waves becomes large. The peaks in phase-space density ...