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Astronomers tracked a powerful solar eruption that rose like a coronal mass ejection before collapsing back onto the Sun. The observations show how magnetic reconnection and strong surrounding fields ...

After riding the circular Antarctic air currents for 11 days, the BLAST balloon telescope ran into a slight problem: It failed to detach from its parachute after landing, so it was dragged about 125 ...

The solar wind paints earth's skies with auroras and can disrupt power grids. But just how the streams of electrically charged particles flow out of the sun has been a mystery until now. Like most ...

THE biggest series of electrically-charged solar storms in recent years is expected to hit the earth within the next few days, possibly as early as today. The solar eruption, or coronal mass ejection ...

At least one person was killed and two others were injured in a magnetic mine blast targeting a vehicle in Kabul, police said. The incident took place at around 7 a.m. in Afghan capital's Khairkhana ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard ...

Astronomers have caught a highly magnetic dead star, or "magnetar," in the Milky Way briefly acting like a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rapidly rotates. The magnetar put on its pulsar disguise ...