Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather ...

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

NASA has issued a warning that the Sun is “waking up,” with solar activity increasing steadily after decades of decline. The agency’s latest research, led by Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

We all rely on the sun to supply our planet with light and warmth, but despite it being vital to our continued existence, there's a lot that scientists still don't know about it. A new study has ...

HOUSTON—Solar activity—thought to rise and fall over 11 year cycles—has been on an incline since 2008, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-led study says. The study points to an uptick in space ...

There is a constant outward flow of charged particles from the Sun. This flow, known as the solar wind, moves across space and reaches Earth every day.

From the 1980s thru 2008, scientists observed that nuclear activity inside the Sun was continuously trending downward, and it was expected that this would continue. However, a new study by the ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind ...