A solar radio burst clung to the Sun for 19 days, smashing all records. Scientists traced it to a magnetic trap fed by three eruptions.

On August 21, 2025, the Sun emitted what appeared to be a routine burst of radio-wave energy—the kind astronomers observe regularly and expect to fade within hours or days. But this signal refused to ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a ...