Brown University environmental anthropologist Myles Lennon examines the complexity of sustainable energy infrastructure and ...

The discovery reveals a hidden layer of complexity in the Sun’s magnetic landscape and showcases the Inouye Telescope’s ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented ...

The sun contains over 99% of the mass of our entire solar system. Like Earth, the sun also rotates on its axis. Each rotation takes about 27 Earth days. Everything you need to know about the sun ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

The detailed new image of the Sun was taken using the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which is operated by the NSO at the Haleakalā Observatory on Maui, Hawaii.

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, ... is likely the size of Neptune and is so far away that it could take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the sun, ...

Most of us are normally unaware of the mechanics of the solar system. But when the silhouette of the moon slides across the disc of the sun during an eclipse you get to marvel at the precision ...