The sun goes through a regular 11-year cycle, swinging between periods of dormancy and periods of activity. Scientists from NASA…
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost…
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated…
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in…
The sun constantly cycles between periods of activity and periods of inactivity, and a new technique allows scientists to better…
While the Sun can be active, it is often quite a calm star. We now know it is unusually calm…
Every second of every day, our sun spits out a stream of tiny high-energy particles, known as the solar wind.…
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data…