Spring equinox may be the best time to see the aurora with a peak in solar activity combining with a special effect.

Spring equinox may be the best time to see the aurora with a peak in solar activity combining with a special effect.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...

By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

The exact timing of the equinoxes changes from year to year, but in 2025, the northern hemisphere's Vernal (Spring) Equinox ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

The sun was well observed during the period of the Maunder Minimum and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity corresponded to a climatic period called the ‘Little ...

The Sun's activity typically peaks at solar maximum, but there's an even more dangerous stage it could enter, and with ...

Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.Instruments necessary for ...

The sun is about to enter the Northern Hemisphere ... between the solar wind's magnetic orientation and Earth's magnetic ...

As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...