The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.
Two rare X-class solar flares from sunspot AR4274 on November 4 sent twin coronal mass ejections toward Earth, prompting NOAA ...
Our planet was rocked by some of the worst geomagnetic storms in more than 20 years. Triggered by a slew of solar flares, the ...
An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...
What new insights about the Sun has NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission revealed to the scientific community? This is what a recent media roundtable at the American ...
The sun typically goes through regular cycles of increased and decreased activity, but in recent years, it hasn't been ...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft is located on the Earth–Sun line, and it observes the Sun’s near side. By ...
Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun ...
Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...
A solar cycle is a roughly 11-year periodic change in the Sun characterized by variations in the number and intensity of sunspots, as well as a flipping of its magnetic poles.