It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research.

Massive solar flares, graceful eruptions of solar material, and an enormous sunspot make up some of the imagery captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2013 and 2014. A year ago this weekend, ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky, and that's expected to continue as the sun is now in its solar ...

New research suggests that the planets in the Solar System may be acting as pacifiers for the Sun, subduing its activity. A ...

Solar Orbiter flew closer to the Sun than ever before. This proximity let it capture electrons in pristine conditions.

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In this artist’s impression, a comet erupts with jets of gas as it falls toward the sun from the depths of the outer solar system. There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Ryugu, a spinning-top-shaped near-Earth object, is a carbonaceous asteroid formed from ice and dust in the outer solar system ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS spacecraft close flyby SwRI mission has gained global attention. Scientists propose a mission to ...