The SMILE spacecraft will study for three years how the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic shield to try to predict ...

Medieval records of the northern lights extending as far as Japan have led researchers to evidence for a powerful burst of ...

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The ...

Solar Orbiter has spotted a large sunspot group forming on the opposite side of the Sun – if it's still active when it rotates into view, it could trigger solar flares.

Inside the core, particles collide and release incredible amounts of energy, which radiate out from the Sun in the form of light – a process called nuclear fusion. The light travels outward towards ...

The sun has just released a powerful M5.7 solar flare, sending a stream of charged particles hurtling toward Earth’s ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based on data collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, our solar system’s ...

NORFOLK, Va. — After what we experienced Monday evening with a severe geomagnetic and solar storm, and even the northern lights reported very far south, a lot of people have been asking if space ...

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected—observations of an ...