The BlackAmericana Fest returns Sept. 26-27 at the Broadside and the Broad Theater with performances by Dom Flemons, Sunny ...

Helios is a breath-taking, 7m-diameter sculpture of the Sun, fashioned by artist Luke Jerram out of hot-air balloon fabric. Its surface is covered in more than 400,000 images of the Sun’s surface, ...

Spots on the Sun's surface can tell us a lot about what is going on with the Solar Cycle. Ray Petelin explains why they're ...

Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

If you’re interested in trying what a 90-year-old deems a “ miracle in a jar ,” then good news: It’s only $12.09, or 19% off ...

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

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new ...

La Niña will be emerging and will likely persist into winter, favoring a weather pattern with above-normal temperatures and ...

With a techniques borrowed from earthquake detection, researchers are learning to predict where sunspots will boil-up. That gives officials in charge of satellites, power grids and radio ...

As per findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, solar wind plasma and magnetic field parameters have been rising since the 2008 “deep solar minimum”. It was surprising, said lead ...

NASA findings show that solar storm activity has been increasing, suggesting a longer-term deviation from standard solar ...

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