NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

A new candidate exoplanet appears to almost uncanny similarities to Earth — but may differ in at least one major way.

The benefits of extremely low energy prices during the day are "washed away" by extremely high ones after dark. But there is ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Every once in a while, the mechanics of our solar system grant Earth and its residents a better-than-average view, as is the ...

A solar flare is an extremely bright flash of radiation. It occurs when magnetic energy associated with a sunspot is suddenly ...