During fleeting fits, the sun occasionally hurls a colossal amount of energy into space. Called solar flares, these eruptions last for mere minutes, and they can trigger catastrophic blackouts and ...

Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 million years, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based electronic technology. Researchers aim to understand this phenomenon and find ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures stretching nearly a million light-years across space." When you purchase ...

One of the most vivid portraits of “reborn” black hole activity – likened to the eruption of a “cosmic volcano” spreading almost one million light-years across space – has been captured in a gigantic ...

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One of the most vivid portraits of 'reborn' black hole activity - likened to the eruption of a 'cosmic volcano' spreading almost one million light-years across space - has been captured in a gigantic ...