The 2024 total solar eclipse provided some answers. Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to ...

From Hindu demon myths to Aztec end-times beliefs, solar eclipses have long been seen as signs of doom. This video explores how cultures across the world interpreted eclipses as cosmic warnings ...

The sun has had quite a busy week hurling solar flares at our planet, causing blackouts across the globe. “After weeks of calm, solar activity is suddenly high again,” reports Spaceweather.com.

On Tuesday (May 13), a sunspot on the sun's surface named AR4086 exploded, releasing an X1.2-class solar flare, part of the most powerful category of flare.Then, during the early hours of ...

A community solar bill bouncing around the Pennsylvania General Assembly for nearly a decade passed the House again, but with natural gas included in the community solar’s legislation. The “Community ...

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals ...

The sun unleashed two huge flares early Wednesday, one day after a NASA observatory captured a dramatic photo of a separate solar flare. The back-to-back eruptions included the strongest of the ...

On August 21, 2017, a team of researchers from the University of Alabama used an unprecedented array of high-tech weather instruments to study how both the atmosphere and insects responded during ...

The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region AR4087. The eruption peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), triggering ...

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Researchers have claimed trees communicate hours before a solar eclipse after detecting bioelectric signals in spruce trees just before the celestial event. | Credit: George Frey/Stringer via ...