That means the sun's rays hit different parts of the world at different angles, depending on the time of the year. During the Northern hemisphere's summer, the Earth is tilted towards the sun ...

Earth was bombarded with an enormous dose of ... is an isotope of carbon with extra neutrons and is produced when cosmic rays hit nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere. High radiocarbon levels in ...

A particularly volatile sunspot has sent a series of solar storms surging toward the Earth, many of which are due to hit in the next ... from sunspots on the sun's surface, which are dark spots ...

Scientists are on the hunt for the source of an "extremely" powerful cosmic ray which ... after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology. However, more than two years since it hit earth, its origin ...

The last time Earth was hit by a blast on this scale was ... the CME moves through the lower atmosphere of the sun. 'They're not as fast as X-rays, but these particles are very energetic so ...

"A new study of 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that ... If a solar superflare ever strikes Earth, the first thing to hit us will be an intense flash of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, according ...

Coronal holes appear as dark patches on images of the Sun when they are taken using ultraviolet and X-rays. They are cooler ... and may be directed towards Earth. Such a stream will glance our ...

Cosmic rays are streams of high-energy particles that hit Earth's atmosphere at near light ... millions or billions of times the mass of the sun. AGN supermassive black holes are surrounded ...