Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Researchers from theUniversity of Hawai’i have cracked the mystery of solar rain that occurs in the Sun’s corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere, and involves blobs of plasma that fall back to ...

Astronomers have observedunexpected activity in C/2014 UN271, the largest comet ever detected from the Oort Cloud, while it ...

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 ...

After weeks of relative quiet, the Sun has erupted with a series of powerful solar flares, signaling a return to more active space weather conditions. Over the weekend, three M-class solar flares were ...

The color of the sun is actually white, though it may look yellow. If you were to get close enough to the sun, which you can't actually do, you'd be able to see its true color. The light rays from the ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how ...

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Update: Summer officially begins tonight in North America! Read on to find out exactly when and why. Each year on the summer solstice, revelers at Stonehenge in England stay up all night to celebrate ...