Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

The sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Eleven-Year Cycle. The astronomers will be part of a “solar patrol” established to warn astronauts against possible danger from the sun, which by 1968 or 1969 should reach a peak in its eleven ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

The collapse of a cloud core can be triggered by many factors. One theory is that our Sun’s formation was initiated by a nearby supernova explosion. During this collapse, the central gas and ...

Jupiter has been high in the sky in the evening lately, and that stirred a memory of the first time I ever saw Jupiter ...