The Sun’s intensity ebbs and flows over decades, and during periods where it’s more intense, it’s more prone to solar storms.

Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...

A new study looking at solar flares may have solved a 50-year-old mystery about our host star, finding that solar flares may be far hotter than we realized. Solar flares are a common event on the ...

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers had predicted that our host star was entering a period of relative quiet ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

Neutrinos—ghostly particles that rarely interact with normal matter—are the sun's secret messengers. These particles are born deep within the sun, a byproduct of the nuclear fusion process which ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

The future of the sun care category is bright, thanks to innovations and educational campaigns. Renee Plato, MDSolarSciences’s CEO, dispels three common sun protection fallacies. Myth 1: High SPF is ...

The Sun, a star similar to others but uniquely close, is significantly larger than Earth (1.3 million Earths could fit inside) and possesses 99.86% of the solar system's mass. The Sun's physical ...

Tom is an avid fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, and freelance writer who frequently contributes to Outdoor Life. Brought to you by Regeneron. By mid-morning, the sun was high enough in the sky to light ...