Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. These processes follow the solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of increasing and decreasing activity on ...

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first-ever images of the sun's ...

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The Solar Orbiter, a joint mission of NASA and the European Space Agency, gets an unprecedented view of the sun's southern region in ultraviolet light. Credit: ESA / NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team / ...

A partial solar eclipse swept across the face of the sun on Sept. 21, mesmerizing stargazers with a dramatic display of orbital mechanics that saw the curved silhouette of the lunar disk turn the ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...

Millions of Americans may have the chance to witness a partial solar eclipse on March 29, when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, temporarily obscuring part of the solar disk. While not as ...