Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past year repeatedly diving into the sun’s outer atmosphere at speeds no human-made object has ever reached, and the scientific payoff is rewriting what ...

NASA captured an image of an intense solar flare released by the sun on Tuesday evening. The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class ...

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has slipped closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, and its latest flyby has now delivered the most intimate images ever captured of our star. The new views do more ...

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, ...

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Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission studies how solar wind removed Mars’ atmosphere, using twin spacecraft to measure atmospheric escape, magnetosphere changes, and space weather impacts.