The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...

The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background ... of particles emitted by the sun — escapes into space. But for its 22nd encounter ...

The sun's most active phase ... These structures can snap and fling plasma out into space in the form of CMEs. On Oct. 10-11, another wave of widespread auroras swept across large parts of ...

Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field. According to NASA's Space Weather Database of ...

The astrophysicist, whose research revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the sun and interplanetary space, died at age 94 in March 2022. But he was still able to witness how the spacecraft ...

The probe passed just 6.1 million kilometres (3.8 million miles) above the Sun’s surface on December 24, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said early on Friday.