The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in ...

and that the energy of the earth comes mainly from the sun, he began to study what Sir William Herschel had called “the great secret” of the maintenance of solar heat. In 1841, before the ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) aim to safely replicate the sun’s nuclear fusion processes here on Earth, thereby solving global energy crises and facilitating exploration ...

Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun—can shoot out hazardous levels of energy strong enough to reach Earth’s atmosphere. Predicting solar flares, ...

The sun has a lot more pressure than Earth's reactors ... which is the point at which nuclear fusion creates its own energy and sustains its own reaction, but the new record is a step towards ...