While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar ...

Indian astronomers have found coronal loops in the Sun’s outer layer. They are arc-like, beautiful structures of hot plasma ...

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

Imagine a world where the weather forecast isn’t just a guess, but a button you can press. Picture farmers summoning rain for ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

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

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

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

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