For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering crucial data about our closest star. The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, built to withstand ...

Nour Rawafi, the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, explained, “Honestly, we don’t know” how likely it is to be hit by a similarly severe storm. Rawafi believes that ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

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First Solar, other solar stocks climb after House proposal hit the ‘more bullish end of investor expectations’ But the proposal is not encouraging for the nuclear industry and EV makers ...

Stark Solar sought to construct a 150-megawatt solar farm on 860 acres in southwest Washington Township. Its application was denied by a state board in April. The company had the option to appeal ...

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals ...

The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region AR4087. The eruption peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), triggering ...

The sun unleashed another strong X-class solar flare overnight, stronger than the one that occurred on Tuesday — an X2.7, the strongest so far this year. X-class flares are the strongest and ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...