The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

The sun is putting on a show. On Sunday the star unleashed several strong and bright solar flares, including one of the most ...

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

In a groundbreaking effort to study the Sun up close, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unprecedented data on the source ...

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast to be limited.

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

In February 2022, SpaceX launched a group of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Soon after launch, many of them began ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

NASA has had incredible success with its solar missions. On December 14, 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to "touch the Sun." Then there is the PUNCH fleet, which, in less ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.