Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 27th close approach to the Sun, reaching an unprecedented distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. This milestone, achieved ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

The Sun's internal structure shows subtle changes even during the calmer phases.

A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission recently captured a dramatic solar prominence rising from the edge of the sun, a rare and captivating sight even for mission scientists accustomed to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX launched three satellites early Wednesday on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather, including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and ...

Parker also matched its record-breaking speed of 6,92,017.92 kilometres per hour. That is fast enough to travel from Mumbai to Delhi in under 4 seconds.

In early September 2025, skywatchers in parts of the Eastern Hemisphere were treated to a total lunar eclipse as Earth blocked the sun's light from the moon. The eclipse occurred in the evening of ...