The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

Our sun may be due for an extremely powerful "superflare" outburst in the next few decades, according to researchers. Stars like our sun can experience one of these superflares once every century ...

like why is the corona 300 times hotter than the sun’s actual surface, which is 300 miles below it? What powers the supersonic solar wind that blows charged particles into the solar system? And what ...

"We were very surprised that sun-like stars are prone to such frequent superflares," said study lead author Valeriy Vasilyev from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar ...

As the last big solar storm to hit Earth was 165 years ago, we might be in line for another soon, but it is uncertain how similar the sun is to these other stars. While direct measurements of the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Surging across the solar system from the sun, the solar wind carries charged particles that strike the planets, on Earth causing ...