BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

A minor geomagnetic storm may increase northern lights visibility tonight as fast solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, according to Space.com forecasts.

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

A NOAA forecast suggest that northern lights may be visible in northern U.S. states on Jan. 27. Here's where aurora displays ...

The moon is chock-full of Earth’s history. Elements from our planet’s atmosphere have made their way into moon dust, also ...

Some solar flares can result in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – huge plumes of plasma blown off the sun's corona and into ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

Solar flares are characterized by intense bursts of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface. In a matter of just a few ...

Long-term observations reveal that at least some fast radio bursts are linked to magnetars orbiting companion stars.

Earth’s magnetic field nearly collapsed long ago. What saved it explains why life survived and why the planet remains ...