A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

This activity is connected to a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, or CME, that left the Sun on Friday. According to SWPC’s ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

A massive 'gravity hole' pulling down the Indian Ocean has stumped scientists for years, but the mystery may have just been ...