During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our understanding of how quickly galaxies can mature ...

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T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

New research suggests that the unexpected intensity of the ongoing solar maximum may be partly tied to a lesser-known, ...

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals new insights into the triggering mechanisms of solar ...

"Our work goes beyond enhancing old images — it's about creating a universal language to study the sun's evolution across ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a fascinating world that is unique among moons of the outer solar system. It's shrouded in a ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...