Scientists have developed a new way to predict the strength of the sun's next activity cycle up to seven years before it reaches its peak. The new method uses the number of sunspots at a newly ...

Did you know the Sun is actually white? Discover how Rayleigh scattering and Earth’s atmosphere make it appear yellow, orange or red from our planet.

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The Sun runs on an eleven-year rhythm, swinging from quiet stretches to stormy peaks and back again, and forecasting where that cycle is headed has long been one of the harder problems in space ...

Scientists plan to use a total solar eclipse that will be visible in Spain next week as a rare chance to learn more about the stormy, unpredictable nature of our star. When the moon blots out the sun ...

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NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky Way and the violent superflares of its youth. Those events may help explain ...

Dying Sun-like stars may not fade away quietly. As blobs of gas erupt unevenly from their swollen surfaces, each burst gives the star a tiny push in the opposite direction. Thousands of these random ...

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A spacecraft designed to stare at the sun is back up and running after a technical glitch temporarily sidelined the observatory for just over a week. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a ...