Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made ...

The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar cycle might be heading toward its quieter phase.

NASA s CODEX experiment aboard the International Space Station is revealing the Sun like never before. Using advanced filters and a specialized coronagraph, CODEX has captured images showing that the ...

The Sun, our closest star, has always been an intriguing entity for scientists to delve into. Its fiery blaze and elemental nature have been subjects of study for centuries. However, a recent ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...

When a dramatic solar video began circulating earlier this year, it looked like something out of science fiction: a bright filament at the Sun’s north pole appeared to shear away and whirl around the ...

Magnetic field reversal is a fascinating topic. You are brought up to think that the compass, pointing to the north, is an infallible instrument, and then you find out that the magnetic pole moves, ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...