The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

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 ...

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

Witness the first images of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse. The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 ...

Did you know that there’s weather in space too? It all starts with the Sun. The Sun is a very hot, very big ball of gas at the center of our solar system. Its surface can reach a blistering 10,800 ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

Paula Dufour can watch the sun rise from the front porch of her Carroll County home and set from the porch in back. Soon, she ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

Commercial rooftop solar projects are built predominantly on metal racking, whether ballasted in place with concrete or ...

A massive solar energy project outside of Tonopah has been seemingly put to a halt, according to the Bureau of Land ...