The Sun looks smooth and featureless to the naked eye, but at close range its surface is a churning sea of magnetized plasma. A new set of images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii ...

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

An exciting new set of stamps has recently been released by the United States Postal Service-- and they are comin' in hot. Just in time for the first day of summer, in conjunction with NASA, the U.S.

After two decades of debate, scientists are getting closer to figuring out exactly what the sun — and thus the whole universe — is made of. The sun is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. There are ...

Alternating groups of planets could be ganging up on the Sun, causing an energy cycle. It seems that alternating groups of researchers may be doing the same about Sun theories. When planets align, the ...

“Clearly the sun is not a good standard star for the discussion of stellar activity,” Böhm-Vitense wrote. But she wondered if ...

Solar Orbiter has identified the Sun’s dual “engines” for superfast electrons: explosive flares and sweeping coronal mass ejections. By catching over 300 events close to their origin, the mission has ...

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Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium. The source of that light show was the ...

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The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star It’s impossible to forget just how much the sun affects life on our planet. It’s overwhelmingly the ...