In 1944, amateur astronomer Hisako Koyama's latest endeavor was sketching the sun's shifting surface. She spent weeks angling her telescope towards the sun and tracking every change she saw with drawings. Little did she know, these...

Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.

We're enjoying the summer here in Montana, and to help celebrate we thought we'd put together a compilation of our favorite sun-related episodes from our past. Don't worry, you won't need sunglasses for this one!

Our star continuously throws out streams of charged particles at more than 500 kilometers per second, something we call Solar Wind. And just like regular weather can be unpredictable and dangerous, space weather can be, too. Meanwhile,...

How likely is it that a massive asteroid will do major damage to Earth and its inhabitants? What about the sun -- is it dying out anytime soon? And the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way -- should we be worried about...

The sun is beginning a new weather cycle, causing debate among scientists about how intense things are going to get, and elsewhere, scientists are looking into just how fluid our early universe was.

In 1999, scientists discovered something that took over 20 years to solve. Why do solar flares move like a lava lamp?

Peggy Whitson is back from the International Space Station after breaking a list of records, and a major solar storm delivered the biggest solar flare we've seen in over a decade.

We've already learned a lot about the solar system, but sometimes the most fascinating things are what we DON'T know.

Phil takes us for a closer (eye safe!) look at the two-octillion ton star that rules our solar system. We look at the sun's core, plasma, magnetic fields, sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and what all of that means for our...

The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured imagery of the sun over the last few years. The solar flares (blue circles) are shown using data from the spacecraft's Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays...

See Space.com's Top 10 most powerful solar flare of 2024. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO, compiled for Ryan French | edited by Steve Spaleta

Sun hurls powerful solar flares towards Earth, bringing northern lightsSource: The Independent

Explore the intense training astronauts undergo for emergencies like fires, depressurization, and solar flares to ensure survival in space.

Why Earth 2.0 may not be such a feasible place for people to live.

What Parker Solar Probe Heard Around the Sun.

A unique combination of sunspots, solar flares and magnetic fields combine to create a visual spectacle on Earth. But what are the forces at work? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. Natural light displays known as Aurora...

Explore the intense training astronauts undergo for emergencies like fires, depressurization, and solar flares to ensure survival in space.

Explore the extreme and mind-bending world of physics with these fascinating facts. From water existing in all three states simultaneously at its triple point, to helium defying gravity as a superfluid, and the immense power of solar...

This video explores the Ulysses spacecraft's mission to study the Sun's polar regions, providing valuable insights into the nature of our nearest star. By observing from above the Earth's atmosphere, Ulysses has revealed a clearer...

In this video, we explore the fascinating world of solar observations and the mission of the Ulysses spacecraft. We learn about the immense complexity of the Sun and how it affects our planet. The video highlights the importance of...

This video is answering the question of what is an aurora.

This video is answering the question of what is a solar flare.

This video is answering the question of how do solar flares affect Earth.