Scientists have uncovered previously hidden changes in the Sun's solar activity over the last 40 years, which could affect ...

For all of human history, the Sun has served as a great constant in daily life. As this brilliant orb blazes across the sky, it sustaind life, provides harmonious rhythms to our world, and marks the ...

For many years now, the activity of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle has been gauged through visible indications like sunspots, ...

Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium. The source of that light show was the ...

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In August last year, the Sun began to throw a tantrum. Clusters of dark spots appeared on its face, marking regions where magnetic fields were knotting and twisting its surface. By early September, ...

The moon hovers over a shadowy void wreathed in sunlight in a stunning new photo taken by NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission on April 27. PUNCH is a collection of ...

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The sun may be a little smaller than we thought it was. Researchers who measure the sun often use total solar eclipses to block out most of its light and get a glimpse of its corona, or outer ...

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