The sun just leaked a huge amount of helium-3 — the rare isotope scientists want to harvest on the moon
The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.
Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun’s greatest mysteries (video)
Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.
Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?
After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?
A total solar eclipse from 2471 B.C. may have shaken Egypt’s cult of the sun
"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens."
Surprise X-class solar flare from emerging sunspot triggers radio blackouts across the Americas
"Further strong activity is likely!"
NASA’s daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week.
Has the sun already passed solar maximum?
Solar Cycle 25 has surpassed its predecessor — but is the end in sight?
India’s Aditya-L1 solar probe watches powerful flare erupt from the sun
India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft captured detailed observations of a powerful solar flare last year, helping scientists better understand our star's eruptions.
NASA set to deliver a knock-out PUNCH to mysteries of the solar wind
A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona becomes the solar wind.
Powerful X-class solar flare triggers radio blackouts across the Pacific Ocean (video)
A strong X-class solar flare erupted from the sun on Sunday, Feb. 23, creating radio blackouts across parts of the Pacific Ocean.