Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Last week, NASA released a new batch of images from the probe as it traveled even closer to the sun. On December 24, 2024, the spacecraft reached 3.8 million miles from the surface, a distance that ...

One could argue that abundant and free energy is the foundational aspiration of our civilisation; there is nothing more important.

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar Physics have captured footage showing intense solar flare activity, coinciding with heat waves sweeping ...

Thanks to its innovative orbital configuration, MESOM would effectively experience a total solar eclipse every synodic month as it naturally passes through the apex of the Moon’s umbral cone, or the ...

As the world's largest axisymmetric solar telescope, WeHoST is a symbol of China's contribution to global space science and planetary safety in an increasingly complex cosmic environment.

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

The enhanced imaging capabilities of the coronal adaptive optics system facilitate the study of small-scale phenomena like ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Princeton physics experiment aims to shed light on disruptive solar flares The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets.