For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

IRELAND could be in for a dazzling sky show this week as the northern lights may appear following a powerful solar storm. On ...

Stellar archaeologists have found “fossil” magnetic fields in dead stars called white dwarfs, giving clues to how our sun is ...

Prominences are cool plasma structures extending several thousand kilometers in the Sun’s hot corona. Some persist for weeks.

For the first time, scientists have mapped the magnetic polarity of active regions on the Sun’s far side without direct observation, using helioseismology to interpret sound waves traveling through ...

Researchers at the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Solar Observatory have developed a method to determine the magnetic polarity of active regions on the sun's far side using ...

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

Researchers are analyzing the mystery behind the stability of solar prominences in the solar corona and their significance ...

Earth’s magnetic field shields our planet from dangerous solar energy and damaging cosmic radiation, while the gravitational ...

Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help ...

At more than one million degrees, the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, is incredibly hot. However, not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of ...

The northern lights may be visible from Ireland over the next couple of days as a powerful solar storm hits our planet. On ...