A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal.

Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium. The source of that light show was the ...

The SOLAR-1 satellite by NOAA is now fully operational after making the million-mile journey into deep space to study space weather.

Scientists spotted patterns hours before a major solar flare, a discovery that could help forecast dangerous eruptions.

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Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A solar eclipse is not just a spectacular cosmic sight and a massive temporary tourist attraction. It's also a great chance to ...

Astronomers of the world will soon have an incredible new tool for observing the sun, in the form of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i. The Inouye Solar Telescope recently began its ...

The sun is taking center stage with recent solar flare activity sparking modest space weather tomorrow, with an added metaphorical selfie as NASA recently released the first-ever images of the sun’s ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

Liz Heinecke, the "Kitchen Pantry Scientist," shares experiments to teach solar science to your kids.

A solar eclipse is not just a spectacular cosmic sight and a massive temporary tourist attraction. It's also a great chance to advance human knowledge. And you can help. Thousands of amateur "citizen ...