Valentine's Day could bring a dazzling display of the northern lights for stargazers in some parts of the U.S.

This Valentine's Day, surprise your loved one with a celestial spectacle as the northern lights grace the skies over select U ...

Other than the Sun, no main sequence star has ever been detected to produce a CME. Similarly, direct detection of exoplanet ... depends sensitively on the properties of the shock and solar wind plasma ...

Exactly 89 days after this month’s new moon on Thursday, January 11 a total solar eclipse will occur across North America. However, this month’s new moon is the biggest “solar eclipse miss ...

A typical sunspot on its own would be about as bright as Earth’s moon. Each sunspot ... brought by the constant solar wind.

(If you took a cup of tea and expanded it out to the same sort of density, you’d get a volume the size of the moon.) There’s almost nothing, but not quite. When the solar wind collides with ...

They measure a CME’s speed and magnetic intensity, which is critical in calculating how the solar wind is about to change. Depending on the speed of the CME, the satellites give a mere 15-30 ...