The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

Technically, the sun is a G-type main-sequence star — specifically, a G2V star. The "V" indicates that it is a dwarf, Tony ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions ...

"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." ...

The sun typically goes through regular cycles of increased and decreased activity, but in recent years, it hasn't been ...

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 ...

The quadruple eruption was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun put on quite ...

From private space tourism to secret moons to new images of our very old observable universe, 2025 was an exciting year in ...

Auroras on Earth occur when storms from our sun engulf our planet — and in a rare cosmic feat last April, our planet returned the favor. The sun's wind often punches into Earth's protective magnetic ...

Last September a team of researchers assembled in southern France. Their six month assignment: develop a new type of space mission, targeting a mysterious segment of the Sun normally hidden in plain ...