Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the sun's outer atmosphere, ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

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

The boundary of the Solar System remains somewhat poorly understood. We know we are within it, in a region of space called the heliosphere, where particles released by the Sun dominate. Beyond it, the ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived earlier and more forcefully than first expected. As activity climbs, ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris ...

What occurs when the most open alien yet drops by when the astronomers vision of the heavens is getting increasingly polluted ...