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

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is expected to make a fiery dive close to the solar surface on the morning of Christmas Eve.

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar ...

“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface.

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

By historical definition, Solar Cycle 1 occurred between 1755 and 1766, placing the sun 's current cycle in Solar Cycle 25.

It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of activity, known as solar ...

As scientists continue to monitor the sun with missions like the ESA’s Solar Orbiter, they remain prepared for both the ...

A festive auroral display may be put on for a lucky few when coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

An ongoing Geomagnetic Storm Warning was extended through Tuesday after a blast of energetic particles from the Sun reached Earth.

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...