High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...

Stellar black holes form from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, typically weighing 3 to 50 times the mass of the sun. When a star runs ... stabilized before finally exploding.

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The sun has unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare today, peaking at 8:10 a.m. (1310 GMT) and triggering shortwave radio blackouts across South America, Africa and the Southern Atlantic. The solar ...

BOSTON - Forecasters believe that there is a legitimate chance for northern lights sightings in New England over the next few nights. For the second time in just a few months, the Earth is under a ...

A pair of linked solar flares recently exploded near-simultaneously from sunspots on different hemispheres of our home star, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. When you purchase through links on our ...

The fiery chasm was at least double the width of the United States. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A vast "canyon of fire" at ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the "devil comet," will be positioned close to the sun during the April 8 total solar eclipse. Some photographers also predict that the volcanic comet may be ...

Since the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been has been shooting continuous photos of the sun, once every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The results are gorgeous.