Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The ...

In a groundbreaking effort to study the Sun up close, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unprecedented data on the source ...

Since the Sun is so hot, how can it contain oxygen, carbon, and other elements without destroying them?Bob FoundIndian ...

From changes in solar activity to shifts in climate and atmosphere, the study of Earth’s future often reveals as much about the present as it does about the distant end. Researchers using a NASA ...

The Sun’s magnetic field is invisible to our eyes, but it quietly shapes everything from the shimmering auroras over the poles to the reliability of GPS on a jet’s navigation screen. When that ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...

In the time it takes to watch a movie or scroll through social media for an hour, the Sun has already gifted Earth more energy than the entire human population uses in a year. Yes, you read that right ...

Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its stellar features with the use of cameras, lenses, telescopes and filters. When you purchase through links on our ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.