In a jaw-dropping moment of astronomical photography, Arizona-based astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured the International Space Station (ISS) passing directly in front of the Sun—and as if ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

Gold and platinum Artist’s impression of a magnetar flare driven by twisted magnetic field lines (green) and a starquake. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars ...

In the case of the 2004 flare from the magnetar SGR 1806–20, a team led by J. Cehula modeled what happened during the explosion. Their simulations showed that the blast sent a shockwave deep ...

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.

Flares from magnetized stars can forge planets’ worth of gold, other heavy elements Flatiron Institute researchers calculate that a single flare from a supermagnetized star called a magnetar can ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe’s rarest elements: a giant flare unleashed by a supermagnetized star. The astronomers calculated that such flares ...