The amount of sunlight, or solar radiation, that a location receives makes a big impact on weather conditions, crop success, rainfall and overall climate trends. Today, instruments called ...

Long before modern technology and scientific instruments, Indian architects and rulers designed temples, observatories and ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

You're an anaerobic microbe sunbathing on a Martian beach billions of years ago listening to the small waves hit the ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

Fresh satellite images have captured one of Russia's most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out as volcanic heat ...

A total solar eclipse is one of travel's rare natural spectacles. For a few brief minutes, the moon slips directly between Earth and the sun, daylight fades, temperatures can drop and the sun' ...

A mysterious pueblo in Arizona’s badlands tells the story of ancient builders, volcanic landscapes, and a place that still ...

British tourist Chris Shears will swap Spain's Mediterranean beaches this summer for its rugged northern coastline as he ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy ...