After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

In every scientific discovery in the movies, a scientist observes something unexpected, scratches the side of his or her ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

The northern lights may be visible as far south as Idaho, New York and South Dakota following strong solar storm activity.

CTRL, a quantum technology company with offices in Sydney, Australia, have demonstrated just such a technology. Their ...