A geomagnetic storm will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field after a recent burst of energy from the sun’s surface, pulling the northern lights to several states in the northern U.S. Wednesday night ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the moon can have water. It’s dry, airless, and lacks an atmosphere, so the ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made its ...

The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface can substantially vary over decades.

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has repeated its record-smashing performance of December 2024, swooping down within a scorching 6.1 ...

Has the sun already reached solar maximum? New data suggests Solar Cycle 25 may have peaked earlier than expected. Find out what this means.

Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation that erupt from the sun’s surface, usually from ... Related: X-class solar flares hit a new record in 2024 and could spike further ...