It might look like a regular patch of Sun, but what you are looking at in the image above is a sight humanity has never seen ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The sun's south pole has been seen for the first time from outside the ecliptic plane in unprecedented images sent back to ...

Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth. First reported by SpaceWeather.com, the sunspot is ...

When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s day ... Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it. As the Moon orbits the Earth, we see it from ...

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun over the weekend, causing radio blackouts on Earth – and more could ... The flare, which came from a part of the sun named active region 3217, was ...