The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...

Northern lights could be visible again in the US as another new flare erupts from the sun - There is a great chance of ...

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

Among its other discoveries, the Parker Solar Probe has also provided the first compelling evidence for the long-theorized but elusive dust-free zone around the sun, which is created by sunlight ...

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

The researchers published their findings Dec. 13 in the journal Science. The sun is a gigantic ball of plasma whose charged ions swirl over its surface to create powerful magnetic fields.

The only way to measure the sun's past activity is to look for evidence of spiking flares in preserved tree trunks and ancient glacial ice. However, these sources haven't allowed researchers to get a ...