An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

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 ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and these stellar flares can dramatically alter the atmospheres of planets, even ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

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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 ...

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...