The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

“All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” said Jamie Jasinski, study lead author and ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of ...

This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky, and that's expected to continue as the sun is now in its solar ...

In this artist’s impression, a comet erupts with jets of gas as it falls toward the sun from the depths of the outer solar system. There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right now, and it’s bigger than any we’ve seen before. It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 ...

New research suggests that the planets in the Solar System may be acting as pacifiers for the Sun, subduing its activity. A ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS spacecraft close flyby SwRI mission has gained global attention. Scientists propose a mission to ...