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

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and ...

In April 2023, an unexpectedly strong solar storm caught scientists and the world by surprise. On April 23, Earth was struck ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

High school students across the U.S., including 10 from Morrison High School, have been part of a project that has detected radio waves associated with solar disturbances using $500 antenna kits, ...

Before you download a stargazing app, think about what you want to get out of it. Are you a complete beginner just trying to ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...

The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...