A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Astronomers are monitoring a large dark spot on the sun’s surface which could impact Earth in the days ahead. 27 News spoke with Brenda Culbertson this week, a solar ...

The aurora borealis can sometimes be seen in Madison County but it requires strong solar storms, explained by an SIUE ...

Watch NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory's M9.6-class flare. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. A fundamental rule in physics is ...

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

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...