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

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

A superflare is an exceptionally powerful electromagnetic emission from a star, releasing energy equivalent to a trillion hydrogen bombs, far beyond the solar flares recorded to date. To ...

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 ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy.

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 ...

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, ...