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An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory ...
We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.
SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...
Space-watchers were shocked after spotting a 250,000-mile-long "canyon of fire" carved into the Sun. A massive solar filament ...
Thursday night has a chance at seeing northern lights over parts of the country and Oklahoma. Here's how to see them tonight.
Space weather probe Vigil will be the world's first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a ...
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...
The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
Astronomers discovered the dynamics of a significant solar storm in May 2024, linked to a rare cascade of six Coronal Mass ...
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...
Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our ...
What Makes a "cannibal coronal mass ejection (CME)". Bolton on Russian sanctions threat: Trump laying the groundwork to say ...