On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO. This sun-monitoring satellite is a ...

Seasoned sports fans usually know which side of the stadium to sit on to avoid staring directly into the sun for an entire game. But this week, there may be no avoiding Mother Nature’s whims, even if ...

When last year's solar superstorm Gannon slammed into Earth, it not only painted the sky with beautiful auroras, but also shrunk one of the planet's protective layers to just one-fifth its usual size.

The sun was in a good mood this week, or at least that's what it looked like in a photo published by NASA. A photo of the sun taken from a NASA satellite and time-stamped Thursday morning appears to ...

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Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Paros, Naxos, and other Greek islands resemble stones scattered across a ...

When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging. A decade later, the four instruments onboard ...

iPlanet, the alliance between America Online/Netscape and Sun Microsystems, is quickly moving closer to Sun. After AOL Time Warner announced last week that it would eliminate 500 positions at iPlanet, ...

The sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, with the number of sunspots, along with the frequency and severity of solar storms, rising and falling over that span. Each cycle is a little ...