With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun's solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

Australia's unemployment rate remains steady at 4.2 per cent in August with a decline in full-time employment that drove the ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more than 60 million degrees—6.5 times hotter than previously believed. This ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...