How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...

Every day on Earth, you experience weather. You feel the wind blowing and see clouds move across the sky. Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Solar Orbiter is out of alignment with the rest of the Solar System. And that's a good thing. By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System's orbital plane, the ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel on Earth, solar wind isn't moving air; it's a ...