Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning on Earth ... "But that process would require a very strong electric field ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Frothy and resembling an ice cream sundae — that’s how NASA described a newly-released, stunning image of a cosmic tornado ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer ... "But that process would require a very strong electric field in the cloud, and that has never been measured." In fact, Shao added, the ...

NASA spotted a circle of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, and the image is still breathtaking over 10 years later.

A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The image of the amazing light show, that looks like a tornado in the stars, combines observations from two different cameras ...