Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...