We don't have to worry about the death of the sun any time soon, but when it does happen, will the Earth be able to survive?

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...

The reason for this brilliant display is the sun, which shot a giant eruption of charged particles toward Earth on Sunday. The colorful Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, appear when ...

The team captured a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is a massive burst of charged particles and magnetic fields, erupting from the sun's far side, near its north pole. Sometimes, these storms ...

Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

The lights we see in the night sky are in actual fact caused by activity on the surface of the Sun. Solar storms on our star's surface give out huge clouds of electrically charged particles.

A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of ...