Space, with its vastness and beauty, also hides potential threats that could spell disaster for humanity. While many cosmic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left: An artist’s drawing of Earth’s magnetic field (blue lines) interacting with the Sun’s charged particles (yellow lines). The ...

Space is full of terrifying possibilities, but most cosmic disasters are extremely unlikely to ever reach us. Solar flares are different: they happen often, and under the right conditions, they could ...

Hospitals in the path of April’s total solar eclipse have been preparing for months for the cosmic event, as major influxes of people could cause several issues for emergency response. Emergency ...

An illustration of a young solar system immersed in high-energy cosmic rays from a nearby supernova. Unlike considering only direct injection of supernova ejecta, this process naturally explains key ...

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 ...