The Sun has started spooky season with a bang, letting loose on October 1 with a colossal flare and coronal mass ejection headed right for Earth. The flare clocked in at X7.1 – the second most ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video of the sun ... an Earth-sized eruption in the center (22 seconds into the video) and “coronal rain,” chunks of plasma that fall ...

When you're standing on Earth's surface, it's easy to forget that our planet is hurtling around the sun at more than 67,000 ...

The sun's solar weather has caused several atmospheric events since the star entered its maximum phase. See the sun's effect.