The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere ...

Betelgeuse is one of the most well-known stars in the night sky. Located about 640 light years from Earth in the ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

The Sun’s magnetic field is stronger than Earth’s own, and in certain variable regions it can be thousands of times stronger.

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured the most detailed images of the Sun to date using a new camera ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the Sun's surface ...

Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth ...

A showery Friday will welcome in an unsettled weekend of weather. Several pieces of energy will pass through this weekend, ...

The only adequate mechanisms for continental drift which have yet been suggested are based on the activity of convection currents in the Earth's mantle.