NASA finds flickering coronal loops signal solar flares, paving the way for better space weather predictions and safety ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

That will solve this once and for all,” Will Duffy said. “We need to go to Antarctica. I need to take a flat-Earther or two ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in ...

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the ...

Late on March 13 and on into the early hours of March 14 the moon will turn a spooky red color in the skies above the U.S.

This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to a blob of charged particles enroute to deliver a "glancing blow" to our planet following a powerful ...

Tucked away in the constellation Coma Berenices just 105 light-years from Earth, the star HD 110067 is ... But for stars less massive than the sun, this method may falter, according to Klaus ...

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A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing ... The glow is produced by light from a fully illuminated Earth reflecting off the lunar ...