Scientists are getting better at predicting colorful auroras here on Earth by closely watching the behavior of the Sun.
A team of scientists from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have proposed a bold idea for protecting Earth against…
The TRAPPIST-1 star might flare too frequently and too violently for life to exist on the TRAPPIST planets.
In 2011, a coronal mass ejection reached Jupiter and produced x-ray auroras hundreds of times brighter than Earth's auroras.
NASA’s first mission dedicated to study the process in nature known as magnetic reconnection undergoing final preparation for launch from…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) (more…)
The Sun has a Swiss army knife of ways it can do you in, from radiation to solar flares. And…
In only a little over an hour, the Sun released two X-class solar flares today. The first occurred at 11:42…
When will the next big solar flare occur? How much damage could it cause to power lines and satellites? These…
Sometimes the Sun is quiet, and other times the Sun gets downright unruly. During the peak of its 11-year cycle,…