NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph captured the blast that showed the sun's raw power in action.

NASA's SDO captured a jack-o'-lantern-like face on the sun as a coronal hole sends solar wind toward Earth ahead of Halloween ...

Forecasters will soon be able to use the instrument, a coronagraph, to better monitor the effects of solar storms. By Katrina Miller Before the northern lights fill the night sky on Earth with their ...

Explosions of charged particles from the Sun, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), are being observed in more detail by a NASA mission aimed at helping scientists better predict space weather events ...

The recent flurry of solar storms suggests the sun is in a period of maximal activity as part of its 11-year cycle. The active period is likely to continue over the next year, so more auroras could be ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and ...

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance understanding of solar wind and space weather. Three spacecraft were sent up this past week on ...

Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon? When you purchase through links on our ...

The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood together and without it, there would be no life on Earth. We are also ...

(TNND) — NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of solar wind and space weather. Three spacecraft were sent up ...

BENGALURU, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket. The launch ...