The strongest solar flare in nearly two months erupted from the sun Tuesday, causing a minor geomagnetic storm as charged particles from the sun passed by the planet.
Director Alfonso Cuarón's visually stunning film "Gravity," in theaters yesterday, is already being heralded as one of the year's best movies. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as astronauts...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured what scienitsts are describing as a "cosmic caterpillar" nearly 6 trillion miles long slinking through deepspace.
About 250 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus (The Sea Goat) lies a star that looks awfully familiar.
The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says.
Every year, from September to March, this town is cast in perpetual darkness. Now, engineers will place three heliostatic mirrors – each measuring 538 square feet – on the faces of the...
Though the sun is currently in the peak year of its 11-year solar weather cycle, our closest star has been rather quiet over all, scientists say.
NASA will launch its newest solar observatory tonight, kicking off a two-year mission to study how energy moves around the active sun.
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