Ironically, however, coronal holes are more common during solar minimum, when the Sun is least active, meaning this week’s appearance took astronomers by surprise. In November a giant ‘sunspot ...
The sun is near the peak of its power, which may explain four solar flares erupting at once. They're no danger to Earth.
Stellar mass black holes, which are significantly smaller than their supermassive cousins, usually weigh in at around 10 ...
Almost all galaxies host giant black holes at their hearts, and it appears that the two are inseparable. But so far, ...
Scientists may be a step closer to discovering how gamma-ray bursts come to be some of the most powerful explosions in the ...
NASA has recently shared a video which provides a 360 immersive experience to viewers of a dive into a black hole. The video was created by Goddard scientists on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA ...
People might assume that, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole, the Earth would be doomed to fall towards it. Black ...
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson ...
Robert Crifasi contends that a massive late-1960s project on the Colorado river illustrates the entanglement of history, ...
BEER giant Heineken has announced plans to invest £39million to help reopen 62 previously shuttered British pubs. The global ...