A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

TBD: ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. space force missions. April could also see United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur ...

The effect known as 'Russell-McPherron' is down to the alignment of the Sun and Earth around the spring and autumn equinox ...

Spectacular displays of the Northern Lights have been seen over recent nights with the potential for more to come.

On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth's magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. When Earth gets bombarded with plasma from the sun ...

Indian scientists report flareless coronal mass ejection observations from the Sun using VELC instrument on Aditya-L1 mission ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...

Magnetic reconnection is the primary mode by which the solar wind couples to Earth's magnetosphere, driving dynamics on an enormous range of scales. At the macroscale (tens of Earth radii), ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...