Scientists using NASA’s Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our sun, it would have triggered a mass extinction on Earth. The flare was ...

Our sun is known for its occasional outburst of energy called a solar flare, which can trigger space weather capable of disrupting communications and power infrastructure here on Earth. But we should ...

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Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia and elsewhere have performed radio observations of a tidal disruption event ...

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BEIJING, 28 May (BelTA - Xinhua) - Chinese scientists have developed FLARE, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to predict stellar flares, offering a transformative tool for ...

The universe is full of stupendously huge explosions. Gamma ray bursts in distant galaxies are literally an everyday sight, and supernovae are even more common as astronomers observe hundreds every ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers of galaxies." A distant supermassive black hole may have bitten off more ...