A powerful flare has unleashed a severe solar storm that could cause auroras and satellite disruptions on Earth.

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

Our solar system is believed to be centred around the Sun, with all the other planets revolving around it. The most fascinating aspect of the universe is that everything is in motion. The planets ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like empty space and more like a furnace, where charged particles heat to tens of ...

Lucas Brefka receives funding from a NASA Exoplanet Research Program grant. Christopher Palma does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...