Powerful eruptions from the sun are likely to interact with Earth's atmosphere on New Year's Eve, causing auroras in some locations.

Ohioans might be celebrating New Year's Eve with the northern lights after seeing them in May and October. See the aurora ...

It also took a long time to funnel the data back to Earth, hence the long delay in publishing these images. “The information we need for our magnetic maps of the Sun, for example, is hidden in ...

The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

Voyager's Golden Record is a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, encoded with music, sounds and images from Earth ... called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to ...

Solar flares are intense, localized bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the sun, releasing immense energy over short periods. These events impact Earth's upper atmosphere and can occasionally ...

The Sun is about 100 times wider than the Earth and the Earth could fit into the Sun over one million times. It would take 500 years for the fastest person on Earth to run the distance from the ...

The mission team knew it wouldn’t receive any communications from the spacecraft during its closest pass of the sun. Now, the team members will await more detailed data from Parker about the ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, gravity coaxed Earth to form from the gaseous, dusty disk that surrounded our young sun. Over time, Earth's interior—which is made mostly of silicate rocks and ...

above Earth. Then, while flying about 150 kilometers apart (93 miles,) the pair of spacecraft will align themselves in such a way in front of the sun as to cast a shadow from one to other ...