Bryce Harper, a student at the University of Queensland, has written a great article for us on the Osiris-REx space mission. this is Bryce’s second article for us at Mostly Science (his first was on ...
A reader recently asked us: “How to spaceships fly in space when there is nothing to push against?” Propulsion works following Newton’s 3rd Law: every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction. Now with jet ...
Solar Activity or Space Weather? Solar activity describes events that take place on the sun, while space weather describes the change in solar activity as seen on our planet, by technology, and in the magnetic organization ...
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space.