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In just under a year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will attempt to "basically almost landing" on the Sun, coming within just 3.8 million miles.

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A massive hole opened up in the Sun's atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak.

A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

$By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.$

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.

NASA’s Solar Probe Survived Flying Right Through Massive Sun Explosion

By Sharon Adarlo

Current observations suggest we could see a solar maximum as early as 2024, not 2025, defying our predictions.

There’s Something Weird Going on With the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird

This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird

By Victor Tangermann

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.

Low Key Hole Opens Up in Sun

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.

Scientists Detect “Heartbeat-Like” Signal From the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive chunk of comet was spotted crashing into our fiery Sun. And perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn't look like the rocky body didn't make it out intact.

Hey Kids, Wanna See a Giant Comet Smash Into the Sun?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A NASA-funded project aims to use the Sun as a gigantic lens to peer into the far reaches of the universe to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures.

Researchers Want to Use the Sun As a Giant Telescope to Look for Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.

Scientists Say the Sun Is Acting Up and Causing Satellites to Fall Back to Earth

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A filament of plasma escaped the Sun over the weekend and left behind a "canyon of fire," a deep ridge over 12,000 miles deep and ten times as long.

Science & Energy

A Huge “Canyon of Fire” Just Opened Up on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

A group of more than 60 scientists and policy experts have signed an open letter calling on governments to ban solar geoengineering.

Scientists Say It Should Be Illegal to Fight Climate Change by Blocking Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

The Parker Solar Probe flew through the Sun’s atmosphere and dipped below the upper part of its atmosphere known as the corona.

NASA Brags That Its Probe Officially Touched the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

Famed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has truly outdone himself with his latest picture of the Sun, stitching together around 150,000 individual images.

This Photo of the Sun Is so Absurdly Detailed That It Looks like a Living Organism

By Victor Tangermann

This Photo of the Sun Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

This Photo of the Sun Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

By Tony Ho Tran

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.

Neanderthals May Have Been Killed Off By Magnetic Pole Flip

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Hannibal Lecter Stars That Wear Planet Corpses

By Tony Ho Tran

The Inouye Solar Telescope, the largest solar observatory in the world, just released the first-ever image of a sunspot.

Science & Energy

The Sharpest-Ever Image of a Sunspot Looks Like a Portal to Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Using the recently upgraded GREGOR telescope on Tenerife, Spain, researchers zoomed in on the surface of the Sun to study its magnetism.

Science & Energy

Close-Up Images of Sunspots Look Like Horrible Gaping Mouths

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just watched as a doomed sungrazer comet hurtled directly toward the Sun, ultimately crumbling apart along the way.

Science & Energy

This Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, courtesy of the Solar Orbiter. And they already made a big discovery.

Science & Energy

Scientists Found Something Surprising in Closest-Ever Photos of the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe just made its first close approach of the Sun, getting to 47.8 million miles from the star's surface.

Science & Energy

A Space Probe Just Took the Closest Pictures of the Sun Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers are baffled by why our Sun is so quiet compared to similar stars. One guess is that it's having a sort of "midlife crisis" transition.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Warn That Our Sun Is Having a “Midlife Crisis”

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube science channel The Action Lab used driving simulator BeamNG.drive to show what it would be like to drive on various heavenly bodies.

Advanced Transport

Here’s What It Would Be Like to Drive on Different Planets

By Jon Christian

Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...

Science & Energy

If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

Scientists just released the highest resolution images of the Sun's surface ever taken using the largest solar telescope in the world.

Science & Energy

The Highest Def Photo of the Sun Looks Like Caramel Popcorn

By Victor Tangermann

Four new papers reveal new findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe that could rewrite the way we understand the way stars are born, evolve, and die.

Science & Energy

Scientists Mystified: Sun’s Magnetic Field Appears to be Flipping

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

By Dan Robitzski

By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.

Studying the Sun’s Atmosphere Could Make Fusion Power a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

By Kristin Houser

In about 10 billion years, our sun will likely harden into a giant crystal orb — a fate that will be shared with many other white dwarf stars.

Science & Energy

In About 10 Billion Years, Our Sun Will Harden Into a Giant Crystal

By Jon Christian

During the closest encounter we've ever had with the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took an impressive picture of the solar corona.

Here’s the Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

A team from the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image of what they believe the Sun's north pole looks like based existing data.

Science & Energy

We’ve Never Seen the Sun’s North Pole, so Scientists Simulated It

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just broke the world records for closest approach to the Sun and fastest speed relative to the Sun.

NASA’s Solar Probe Just Broke Two World Records

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a coronal mass ejection (CME), a spewing of plasma and energy, from a star that's not the Earth's Sun.

Science & Energy

Scientists Observe a Star That Spews Plasma — And It’s Not Our Sun

By Kristin Houser

NASA’s New Space Probe Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

Science & Energy

NASA Just Launched A New Space Probe That Will Venture Closer to the Sun Than Any Craft Before It

By Kristin Houser

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Tomorrow, NASA Will Make a Major Announcement About a New Mission To “Touch the Sun”

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A Powerful Energy Beam in Space Seems to Exceed the Speed of Light

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Science & Energy

The Sun Is Slowly Expanding. How Can We Stop It From Killing Us All?

By Neil C. Bhavsar

NASA Plans To Turn The Largest Object in Our Solar System into a Telescope

NASA Plans To Turn The Largest Object in Our Solar System into a Telescope

By Chelsea Gohd

Thanks to NASA’s Solar Probe Plus, Soon, We’ll Be Touching The Sun

Thanks to NASA’s Solar Probe Plus, Soon, We’ll Be Touching The Sun

By Jelor Gallego

NASA Found What Appears to Be an Enormous Dark Spot on the Sun

NASA Found What Appears to Be an Enormous Dark Spot on the Sun

By Jelor Gallego

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

By Todd Jaquith

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

By Sarah Marquart

Total Solar Eclipse Heading Our Way Next Week, Here’s How to Watch

Total Solar Eclipse Heading Our Way Next Week, Here’s How to Watch

By Sarah Marquart

Now You Can Have Your Own Artificial Sun in Your Home

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Now You Can Have Your Own Artificial Sun in Your Home

By Annabs Sanchez

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

By Sarah Marquart

Scientists Just Discovered the Longest Stellar Eclipse in the Known Universe

Scientists Just Discovered the Longest Stellar Eclipse in the Known Universe

By Sarah Marquart

How Do We Know That the Earth is Round?

Science & Energy

How Do We Know That the Earth is Round?

By Daniel Barker

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

By Sarah Marquart

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Science Explained: How Does Our Sun Work?

Largest Black Holes Could Reach a Mass of 50 Billion Suns

Largest Black Holes Could Reach a Mass of 50 Billion Suns

Take a High Resolution Tour of Our Solar System

Take a High Resolution Tour of Our Solar System

By Jolene Creighton

Size Comparisons of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

Science & Energy

Size Comparisons of the Largest Objects in the Known Universe

By Jolene Creighton

A Photon’s Million-Year Journey From the Center of the Sun

From Quarks to Quasars

A Photon’s Million-Year Journey From the Center of the Sun

By Avery Thompson

New Tatooine-Like Planet Resides in Two-Sun System

From Quarks to Quasars

New Tatooine-Like Planet Resides in Two-Sun System

By Jenny Ludmer

Best NASA Footage of Giant Sunspots

Science & Energy

Best NASA Footage of Giant Sunspots

By Jolene Creighton

How Does the Sun Appear on Other Planets?

From Quarks to Quasars

How Does the Sun Appear on Other Planets?

By Joshua Filmer

1 in 4 Americans think the Sun Orbits the Earth? The Real Problem with Education in America

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1 in 4 Americans think the Sun Orbits the Earth? The Real Problem with Education in America

By Jolene Creighton