We don't have to worry about the death of the sun any time soon, but when it does happen, will the Earth be able to survive?
Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...
Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.
The team captured a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is a massive burst of charged particles and magnetic fields, erupting from the sun's far side, near its north pole. Sometimes, these storms ...
The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona, and study solar wind, or the energized particles that emerge in a steady stream from the sun. Both groundbreaking ...
In a groundbreaking study, researchers have proposed that neutrinos, the elusive particles produced during nuclear fusion, ...
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...
Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...
As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.
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Related: 32 stunning photos of auroras seen from space The northern lights occur when charged particles from the sun — called ...