An international team of astronomers from the United States and Chile has detected three giant planets in the HD 133131 system, a pair of stellar ‘twins’...
The details of the transition from defined rays in the upper atmosphere of the Sun to the solar wind have always been a mystery. Using NASA’s STEREO...
Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a team of astronomers led by Prof. Simon Driver from the University...
A Cornell University Professor’s recalculation of models linking a proposed 9th solar system planet to a slant in the orbital plane around our Sun could...
A team of scientists led by Prof. Stacey Harmer of the University of California, Davis, has discovered how sunflowers use their circadian clock, acting...
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, while Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. Some cosmologists think this time gap means that life on other planets...
Sunflowers. Image credit: Betty Jo Tindle / CC BY-SA 3.0.
The one fact about plants that most people probably remember from school is that they use sunlight...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning new ultraviolet images of the auroral lights in the atmosphere of the Solar System’s largest...
Our Sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, ‘stole’ Planet Nine from a passing star system, says a team of European astronomers led by Lund University...
Blue-green egg color shields bird embryos from harmful sunlight, according to Dr. David Lahti from the City University of New York and Dr. Dan Ardia from...
Powerful coronal mass ejection events from the young Sun may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm early Earth, according to a team of researchers...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected very low levels of carbon monoxide gas in the debris disk around the nearby star...
The four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth’s space...
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the Sun released an M6.7 class solar flare, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Solar flares...
The Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has recorded significant changes in how the solar wind behaves far from...
According to a study led by University College London researcher William Dunn, the solar wind is causing intense X-ray bursts over Jupiter’s polar regions.
Solar...
Using data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), researchers have accurately determined the strength and direction of the magnetic field...
