If you’ve spent any time on the Earth in the last 50 years or so, you might have noticed a lot of trash laying around…with less and less space to, you know, put it. Meanwhile, we’re sending all sorts ...

A 40-year study shows the Sun’s internal structure subtly shifts between quiet cycles, offering clues to future solar ...

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made object has ever reached, and the scientific payoff is rewriting what ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

The Sun, our closest star, has always been an intriguing entity for scientists to delve into. Its fiery blaze and elemental nature have been subjects of study for centuries. However, a recent ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...

When a dramatic solar video began circulating earlier this year, it looked like something out of science fiction: a bright filament at the Sun’s north pole appeared to shear away and whirl around the ...