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We gain an hour of sunshine in the evening

The nighttime spectacle is expected to be visible in northern parts of the country on Sunday night.

Paint poured on the mouth of the speaker, when fed music, breaks out in spicule-like jets

"When I saw the results, my mind exploded," said Anna Malanushenko, who led the study.

On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failure was a geomagnetic storm caused by the Sun.

In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar flare also displayed a downward flow of motion, as if material was falling back towards the Sun. Astronomers wondered what exactly they were seeing. Now,…

In 1859 a massive solar storm knocked out the telegraph, but back then there was no electricity or internet. So what would happen if a storm that big hit today?

There’s been tremendous excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, hinting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works – it is the process that powers the Sun, providing heat and light to the…

Fragments of heavy elements keep polluting a white dwarf star, leading astronomers to believe it could be asteroids from shattered planets.