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Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward better understanding...

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. We explore this gas giant in more detail here.

Ancient and rare blue crystals from the dawn of the solar system help confirm that the newborn sun was violently active, a new study reports.

This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of nine onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly...

Read about the history and future of Earth’s sun as well as fun facts about the sun’s age, size, temperature, and phenomena like solar flares.

The sun gets super-active in a new timelapse captured from a Portugal dark sky preserve by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe took one step closer to the sun Wednesday (Jan. 29) when it executed its fourth flyby of our star.

Sun erupts with extremely speedy coronal mass ejection and two spectacular fiery filaments, watch the action unfold.

Images from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment...

Satellites observed a coronal mass ejection on Wednesday (Nov. 15), capturing a bright burst of super-hot plasma that warped the sun's magnetic field.

During next month's solar eclipse, you may be tempted to gaze directly at the sun, but you absolutely should not do this without the proper eye protection.

Debris disks discovered around two nearby stars look strikingly like the Kuiper Belt in the outer part of our solar system, astronomers said today.

A pair of new studies observe the cause behind the end of a solar cycle and the beginning of a new one.

The sun's atmosphere has three layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere and the corona. We explore each layer in more detail here.

When European Space Agency photographers tracked the International Space Station across the face of the sun in 2013, they got more than they bargained for: a...

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Scientists won't be able to process much of the data gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and IRIS spacecraft for a while, thanks to a burst...

A new study, and some gorgeous simulations, may have revealed how order arises from disorder in the turbulent, chaotic body of the sun.

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its yearly orbit — known as perihelion — on Jan. 3, when our parent star will appear at its largest...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft captured video of powerful solar storms last week, recording strong solar flares and coronal mass ejections...

A new video shows the sun's "skin" in all its pulsing, shifting glory, as seen by a Swedish solar telescope.

A comet made a death plunge into the Sun on Friday, disintegrating as its icy chemicals vaporized on the way in.

After laborious data cleaning, scientists have gotten their best look at the sun's outer atmosphere.

The discovery of the oldest known sun-like star shows astronomers what Earth's own sun might look like in 4 billion years; it clears up a mystery about Earth's...

Like Icarus of legend, astronaut Sunita Williams reaches out toward the sun in a dazzling new photo from a Sept. 5 spacewalk outside the International Space...

When a global crisis forces a fast pivot, how quickly can your team respond? Get a behind-the-scenes look from Slack's SVP of Sales and Customer Success.

Have you looked up this week to see a bright red moon or sun? Wildfires from as far as thousands of miles away are turning the sky colors.

A solar flare from the sun this week poses no threat to astronauts on the International Space Station or plans for vital spacewalk repairs on the orbiting lab,...

Observations of solar flares by spacecraft at Mars, Venus and the Earth show that eruptions on the far side of the Sun may affect our "space weather" back on...

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Tyler Nordgren's book 'Sun Moon Earth' traces the natural history of eclipses and how the interpretation of such events has changed over time.

A trio of moderate flares blasted off from the sun on May 19, 2022, and there might be more in store.

Stunning new NASA images reveal the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft were silhouetted by the sun earlier this week.

Earth gets farther from the sun today (July 3) than it does at any other point during the year.

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS shines in a new image captured by Virtual Telescope Project founder Gianluca Masi on Nov. 19 as the comet raced away from the sun.

The Earth kicks off 2013 by reaching perihelion today (Jan. 2), the point in its orbit when it is closest to the sun. The Earth is more than 1 million miles...