NASA says the energy from a flare travels at the speed of light. Therefore, a flare can be seen from Earth about 8 minutes ...

The sun has emitted several solar flares in recent days, putting space-weather experts on the lookout for northern lights ...

When cave biologist Hazel Barton ventured into the pitch darkness, the last thing she expected to find were organisms harnessing energy from light. This new understanding of photosynthesis in the dark ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed an innovative use for nanotechnology in the field of cancer research. Their multidisciplinary team, led by Biology Associate Professor Mazin Magzoub, is ...

Regulus — also called Alpha Leonis — is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The brightest star in the constellation ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

A research team, affiliated with UNIST, has unveiled a flexible photodetector, capable of converting light across a broad ...

You can point to red, green, and blue on a rainbow, but not purple. That’s because it doesn’t actually exist in the spectrum ...

A major flare-up affected an aircraft’s data and control; the solution was so easy that it almost makes no sense.

When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum, ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...