The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Homes traditionally run on power grids, but it isn't 100% reliable. Technical problems can happen at any time, high consumer demand leads to blackouts, and there's the occasional weather disturbance ...

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Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...