The Sun seems like a constant, reassuring presence day to day, but it's actually fairly tempestuous and changeable. One ...

Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

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

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

“All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” said Jamie Jasinski, study lead author and ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

Kirk’s project was to park himself in the middle of an often unfriendly space — a college campus or on a liberal podcast, for example — and invite debate. That project in itself shouldn’t be a ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature don’t think climate change is something we Floridians should be worrying about. But I ...

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced the launch of Surya, a foundation model for the sun. Having been trained ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...