NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has detected a colossal coronal hole on the Sun’s surface ... if the solar wind is stronger than expected, Earth could experience G2 or even G3-class ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

Increased solar activity could make the Northern and Southern Lights more vivid and visible at lower latitudes than usual ... a reminder of the Sun’s immense influence on Earth.

Note the scorpion’s red heart, Antares, which boasts a diameter 700 times that of our sun and ranks among the ... Still, it will likely engulf the Earth, but by that time our oceans, lakes ...

One planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits its star ... far longer than life on Earth could persist before the Sun dies. Detecting life on super-Earths To detect life on distant exoplanets ...

Kepler-452b is a near-Earth-size world in the habitable zone of stars similar to our Sun. The star is about 10 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than Earth’s Sun. This world is about 60 percent ...