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Imagine a solar storm generating auroral displays across the entire sky. No, we haven't quite seen them that strong in…
Because of our dependence on technology, a powerful solar storm would be a catastrophe, shutting down the electrical grid and…
Our Sun continues to demonstrate its awesome power in a breathtaking collection of recent images taken by the U.S. National…
We've touched on the hazards of solar storms plenty of times in the past. We've also recently started reporting even…
The Sun belted out strong solar flares two days in a row, as activity ramps up toward the next Solar…
Using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, scientists have discovered new clues that could help predict when and where the…
New images of the Sun’s chromosphere – the lower region of the solar atmosphere -- have been released, and to…
In 1982, author James Michener published his sprawling Space Race novel, Space. In it, he describes a fictional Apollo 18…
One of the beauties of modern-day space telescopes is that the data they produce, which is eventually wholly released to…