Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

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

Solar system is a collection of various celestial bodies that are held together by the gravitational pull of the sun. Our ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The intensity of the Sun’s activity ebbs and flows across years, but also across decades—a behavior that scientists haven’t quite figured out yet. At ...

This past Sunday, Sept. 21, was designated as Sun Day, a day where solar advocates around the country gathered to promote ...

The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery of solar rain, a phenomenon where plasma clumps fall back to the Sun's surface.

Daylight will soon start disappearing remarkably fast. With the winding down of summer comes that familiar shortening of daylight hours until we reach the autumn equinox, one of two points in our ...