When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowed by the dying star, a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer ...

The best sun hats can make you look glamorous or cool and adventurous, while protecting your face and neck from harmful UV ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the fundamental driver of solar activity. The research, published in The Astrophysical ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

An illustration of the sun's magnetic fields overlaid on an image of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2016. NASA / SDO / AIA / LMSAL The sun’s magnetic field could form much ...

The poles of the sun’s magnetic field are fading away. But don’t panic: it’s all part of our host star’s usual 11-year cycle of activity. Over the past couple of years, solar activity—as measured by ...