Scientists have discovered that the Moon-forming collision may have depended heavily on how hot and physically strong early ...

With this new approach to solar farm designs, both farmers' crops and their workers are seeing notable benefits during hot summer harvesting.

His remarkable work on sandpile models helps us account for things like avalanches, solar flares, traffic. I like problems of ...

Trans-Neptunian objects as small as 3 miles across have been directly characterized for the first time, as Hubble and James ...

A plunge in the iron-to-oxygen ratio shows the Sun’s enormous magnetic boundary carries a chemical fingerprint into space.

Though less present in the public consciousness than hurricanes and wildfires, space weather represents a real and ...

Legislation to make it easy for Californians to install plug-in solar panels is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that intense radiation should strip away their atmospheres. Yet several of these scorching, lava-covered worlds still retain thick gaseous envelopes, ...

An NJIT-led research team has developed an AI system that can spot faint warning signals of solar active regions, potential precursors to solar storms, nearly nine hours before they become visible.

The sharpest images ever taken of the Sun’s surface reveal ribbons of solar plasma curling into tight, wave-like vortices near the edge of a sunspot — a pattern never before seen on our star. The ...

New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, ...

These images of the corona and solar prominences were taken in different wavelengths of visible and infrared light by imagers aboard a NASA’s WB-57 jet during the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse.