10+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (262+ words) Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any planets unlucky enough to be nearby.Â…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (525+ words) The Sun has spent the past few days hurling repeated bursts of energy and plasma toward Earth, unleashing a sequence of geomagnetic storms that lit up skies across continents and sent satellites and power grids into a state of high…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago   (33+ words) A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across space — and occasionally, straight to our planet. With the help of......

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (395+ words) Our Sun seems pretty calm these days with a largely stable regular solar cycle revealed by sunspots and flare activity but billions of years ago, it was quite simply a menace. Scientists have just captured evidence of what the Sun…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (886+ words) Tatiana Niembro receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the SAO/SWEAP subcontract 975569 and the LWS grant number 80NSSC23K0897. Smithsonian Institution provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. What is meant by solar storm and solar wind?...