The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

The massive University of Arkansas solar project moves forward, but questions abound on the federal funding promised to the ...

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"We've been able to show, for the very first time, that the sun's flare pulsations and Earth's atmosphere were pulsing in ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

Range Astronomy Astronomy is a science often focused on very distant and alien celestial objects, from radiating pulsars and ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...