Credit: NASA/Sally Bensusen Despite being so hot, the corona is less than ... Voyager 1 and 2 probes and NASA's various solar ...

While talking with Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr ...

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...

The sun has produced energy for billions of years ... absorbent plates on a roof can heat liquid in tubes that supply a house with hot water. Solar energy is lauded as an inexhaustible fuel ...

While the solar wind protects Earth from other harmful particles coming from space, storms can also threaten our satellite and communications networks. The surface of the sun is blisteringly hot at ...

[Becky Stern] likes to harness the power of the Sun. Most of us will immediately think of solar cells and other exotic solar energy techniques. But [Becky] shows how to make a hot air balloon ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

As far as concepts go, this one is pretty practical.

Could blocking the sun help reverse climate change? Scientists say maybe, thanks to solar geoengineering. The emerging solution is designed to cool the Earth and prevent catastrophic warming.