The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

If everything in our solar system formed from ... One theory is that our Sun's formation was initiated by a nearby supernova explosion. During this collapse, the central gas and dust became ...

The April 2024 total solar eclipse offered a fleeting but powerful window into the sun’s impact on Earth’s atmosphere.