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Earth About to Be Blasted By a Storm Ejected From the Sun’s “Southern Hole”

Science & Energy

Earth About to Be Blasted By a Storm Ejected From the Sun’s “Southern Hole”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The sun was captured letting off a ball of gas — which, in other words, makes a solar flare seem a lot like a solar fart.

The Sun Just Let Off a Really Nasty Fart

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A filament of plasma escaped the Sun over the weekend and left behind a "canyon of fire," a deep ridge over 12,000 miles deep and ten times as long.

Science & Energy

A Huge “Canyon of Fire” Just Opened Up on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

An extraordinary image from the ESA shows the Sun from much closer than Earth — and spoiler alert, it's pretty incredible.

Scientists Release Stunning Picture Taken Really Close to the Sun

By Jon Christian

NASA’s Probe Took a Video as It “Touched the Sun” and Wow

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NASA’s Probe Took a Video as It “Touched the Sun” and Wow

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists may have answered a longstanding question about exactly how Earth's unique water came to be.

Scientists Say the Sun May Have Kinda Sprayed the Earth With Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of astronomers have taken what they claim to be the first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star.

Science & Energy

This is the First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star

By Victor Tangermann

The asteroid belt will get turned into dust when, as the Sun is finally dying, it will get incredibly bright, and destroy ithe entire asteroid belt. Fun!

Science & Energy

In Its Dying Gasp, Our Sun Will Obliterate the Asteroid Belt

By Jon Christian