The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory setup.

The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between so ...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...