The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

In an image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory last week, the sun looks happy but the shapes on its surface could spell severe disruptions to the Earth's atmosphere The sun is shining — but ...

A new photo of the Sun is making the rounds, but it may be more ominous than adorable. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory images the Sun using ultraviolet light to see details about solar winds, solar ...

A solar telescope perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the dormant volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, captured new granular images of the sun, unlike any seen before. The solar images were ...

The world’s most powerful ground-based solar telescope have given us a spectacular look at various sunspots and quiet regions of the sun in unprecedented detail with the release of eight photos ...

Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...

The latest Readers Photo Challenge assignment tasked participants with taking pictures of the sun and/or sunshine. Some people took photos that included the sun itself while others took the effects of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thankfully, Earth escaped any negative effects of the solar winds for now. As The Guardian reported, the storm would have hit us a ...