Sunspot AR4114 erupted with M8 and M6-class solar flares. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in ...

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of ...

A NASA telescope has detected its clearest signal yet of a potential Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting around a distant star complex. The system, known as Alpha Centauri, is more than four light-years ...

Despite all the buzz around space tourism and giant rockets that can get us to the moon and beyond, life in space is still a ...

Solar storms that fling magnetism across the solar system can knock out satellites, power grids, communication and navigation ...

The sun has been active and unleashed an intense combination of coronal mass ejections and coronal hole high-speed streams with a geomagnetic storm forecasted for tonight, Aug. 7, and tomorrow, Aug. 8 ...

HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have ...

After weeks of reduced activity, the sun erupted with three powerful flares on a single day. That could send solar flares ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have ...

After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...