Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms

NASA images used in a photo composite. Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT Earth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere, stretches from the planet’s ...

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Icy wreckage discovered in nearby planetary system Icy wreckage discovered in nearby planetary system

This artist’s concept illustrates the preferred model for explaining ALMA observations of Beta Pictoris. At the outer fringes of the system,...

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Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism

Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars, as shown in this artist’s conception. Credit: NASA/...

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Father's age tied to higher rates of psychiatric, academic problems in kids Father's age tied to higher rates of psychiatric, academic problems in kids

When compared to a child born to a 24-year-old father, a child born to a 45-year-old father is 3.5 times more likely to have autism, 13 time...

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Technique allows for radiation-free detection of tumors, study finds Technique allows for radiation-free detection of tumors, study finds

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed a way to scan young...

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What is Super Bowl? What is Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football i...

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What they look like under the helmets What they look like under the helmets

When they approved several Grammys in silence from underneath their trademark robot headgears, Daft Criminal drew in fairly a couple of quer...

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