A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

In today’s vision to improve technologies for electronic devices further, a physical limit is appearing to Moore’s law, the trend in the last 50 years to ...

Astronomers have discovered a second long-sought production site of gold, uranium and other heavy elements — and answered a ...

In February, a small aircraft flew 300 miles through the skies, guided only by Earth’s magnetic field. How so? Onboard was a ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...