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Other events include a free showing of Disney's 'Strange World' and art show openings at 120710 and UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder Art Gallery.

These flares can drag charged particles through holes in the solar atmosphere and out into space.

Sensors in smoke detectors monitor how particles in the air affect a flow of current to the battery Garrett Aitken/iStock via Getty ImagesEditor’s note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an alarm for what seems like no reason. Why do smoke detector alarms go off even when there’s no smoke? The most likely reason smoke detectors go off u...

Thanks to the sun's 11-year-long cycle, Neptune might be systematically purged of its clouds.

"It's why we never throw anything away – you don't know what secrets are being stored in the data beamed down from space."

Powerful solar storms that can knock out power grids are extremely rare. But these are more likely to happen in coming years, here's why.

Cool stars with powerful magnetic fields could have remarkably fast stellar winds that strip away their planets' atmospheres, making even "habitable zone" worlds less friendly to life.

The Rotary Club of Los Altos’ Fine Art in the Park open-air art show is set to come to Lincoln Park 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

A new space weather sensor is heading to the International Space Station to help scientists understand how the sun's outbursts alter Earth's upper atmosphere.

On October 1, 2021, a pair of small spacecraft got their first good look at the closest planet to the Sun, revealing the strange process through which Mercury produces its own auroras.