Isotope ratios found in meteorites suggest that a supernova exploded nearby while the Sun and Solar System were still forming. But the blast wave from a supernova that close could have potentially ...

Beautiful swirls of green and red lights appeared in the sky over Whitehorse, a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon, on the night of 3 September. The lights were caused by a whip-like solar ...

A massive solar storm erupted from the sun today, creating a huge tendril of plasma that stretched across the face of the star. The giant solar eruption created a long filament of magnetic plasma, ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process of topology change and energy release, taking place in plasmas on the Sun, in space, in astrophysical objects and in the laboratory. However, ...