Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

TENS of thousands of earthquakes are said to happen on our planet each year and the Sun has its own version. Sunquakes are similar to the events we have here on Earth but they’re much more powerful ...

In July 2011, a short-lived disturbance originating from the interior of the Sun resulted in a series of unusually sharp circular ripples on the star's surface. The event was sort of like an ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. You've ...

Powerful earthquake-like events on the sun's surface, called sunquakes, can be set off by huge belches of charged particles from the solar atmosphere, scientists say. Researchers had previously linked ...