High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Understanding the Sun’s magnetic behavior is crucial to predicting space weather and its effects on Earth. Recent findings from the Solar Orbiter, published in a paper on Nov. 5 in The Astrophysical ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first-ever images of the sun's ...

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon. You may also ...

This glimpse of the northern lights was captured in Missouri on November 11, 2025. Smuckola, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons A massive solar flare unleashed November 11 was one of the strongest on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International ...