Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...

The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF, this is a trans-Neptunian object ...

The sun has released several powerful M- and X-class solar flares over the past few days, resulting in radio blackouts around ...

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

The new sunspot responsible for this powerful blast is rotating into view, which could bring more solar activity—and ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

The most powerful eruption of 2025 so far was observed last week, and caused a 10-minute period of 'degraded communications' ...

T he European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter is studying the Sun like never before. Just two months ago, it used Venus to leave the plane of the Solar System. It is now on a slanted orbit that ...

The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured imagery of the sun over the last few years. The ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Last year, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter drew closer to the Sun than it ...