The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

On July 1 2025, at 10.42am IST, the crew of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) continued their scientific work aboard the International ...

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...