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Fast forward 15 years and we could be living in a world with an unlimited supply of green energy. MIT has announced it is working with a private firm to build a nuclear fusion power plant capable of …
“The discovery of these supermassive black holes, which launch jets that emit more energy in one second than our sun will produce in its entire lifetime, was the culmination of a yearlong research pr…
A huge solar storm is heading for Earth, and it's likely to hit tomorrow . The storm could knockout satellites, disrupt power supplies and spark stunning displays of the Northern Lights. It was c…
According to experts, our Sun is tilted by about 6 degrees compared to the sun’s equator. The reason behind this has remained an astronomical mystery for decades. Now, experts believe they've fin…
It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the b…
If the sun suddenly blinked out of existence, you would have nothing to worry about — for the first eight minutes, anyway. After that, all hell would likely break loose. Still, it wouldn't be the…
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon is at a close enough point to the Earth and simultaneously crosses the path of the sun, causing it to cast a shadow over large parts of Earth’s surface, wit…
A massive solar storm is making its way towards Earth, and it's likely to hit today. The storm was created by a solar flare - a large explosion in the sun's atmosphere - which generated charg…
Elon Musk's personal Tesla might have gotten all the headlines during SpaceX's historic rocket launch last week , but the Falcon Heavy also carried a second, secret payload almost nobody knew…
The surface of the red giant star Π¹ Gruis from PIONIER on the VLT. Credit: ESO "This is the first time that we have such a giant star that is unambiguously imaged with that level of details,&qu…
The best planet , Mercury , is in the midst of telling us something important about our sun: It’s losing mass. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a history of helping us study gravity. Alber…
A new model on how stars are formed has added weight to the hypothesis that most – if not all – stars are born in a litter with at least one sibling. Our own star at the center of the Solar System is…
A HUGE hole has been detected in the Earth’s magnetic shield, leaving millions of human beings vulnerable to deadly cosmic radiation, scientists have warned. From analyzing data from the GRAPES-3 muo…
Earlier this month, NASA issued a press release stating that it’s likely that our solar system has a ninth planet” even if it’s proving difficult to find. The planet could have a mass ten times tha…
A new study led by Miguel Pereira Santaella, research associate at the oxford university department of physics used the ALMA observatory and detected the (670 μm) water transition in space , for the …
