Astronomy Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a growing jet of energy — Space photo of the week Astronomy The night sky could get three times brighter as new satellites ...

Keep up with current northern lights forecasts and geomagnetic storm warnings with our aurora forecast live blog. A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere ...

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The sun's corona is beautiful to observe, but it is also its most sweltering region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar ...

About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun’s tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down.

Click to open image viewer. Solar Wind Composition Experiment, for which this artifact was a test article, collected samples of the solar wind for analysis on Earth. This experiment was performed on ...