As the sun reaches its solar maximum, a strong solar flare erupted on March 28, which may enhance the visibility of the northern lights and disrupt technology.

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Scientists in Spain have created tiny flower-shaped structures that can boost magnetic fields in a very small area. These ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

Oregon State University scientists have developed a highly efficient, uniquely shaped magnetic nanoparticle that could enable ...

Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.

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