Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids ...

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways ...

The massive, violent flares are now known to emerge every 100 years—40 to 50 times more often than scientists once believed.

Researchers said that confirming 'hiccuping' stars is a major step in understanding how outsized stars work and how they have ...

A strange star has revealed to astronomers a mysterious past — one that involves the merger of two ancient suns.

In other words, while Kepler only observed each star for a few years, combining data from thousands of Sun-like stars ...

Researchers study superflares, theorizing that our sun could produce such massive events, though none have been observed yet.

A giant star 150 times bigger than the Sun has been pictured 'hiccuping' by scientists. Despite being predicted in theory, ...

Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans h ...

Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation snap off the solar surface with the strength of millions of volcanic ...

Superflares are now understood to explode from Sun-like stars every 100 years, say researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. In a paper for the journal Science ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...