Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

Solar generators (or more correctly, portable power stations) are big business. Many generator retailers carry them, some gas ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first-ever images of the sun's poles. If this doesn't seem like a big deal, consider that every image you have ever seen of the sun ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s ...

A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using the unparalleled power of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, built and ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

The Sun is now more active than it has been in over a decade. This intense phase is part of its natural cycle, which repeats every 11 years. In late 2024, the Sun reached a peak period known as ...

The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass. It sheds most of the heat and light that makes life possible on Earth and possibly elsewhere.

The sun contains over 99% of the mass of our entire solar system. Like Earth, the sun also rotates on its axis. Each rotation takes about 27 Earth days. Everything you need to know about the sun ...