In spectacularly good timing a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun is about to collide with an object which came from outside of the Solar System. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object ...

It’s incredible to think that the sun, roughly 93 million miles away, can mess with our power grids here on Earth and paint our night skies with ribbons of green and red. But that’s exactly what ...

The NASA/ESA Solar & Heliospheric Observatory captured a 'butterfly-shaped' coronal mass ejection erupt from the sun. Credit: ...

A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. The encounter comes one year after the historic flyby last ...

NOAA forecast a Kp index at a high of 4.67 between 9 p.m. Friday and midnight Saturday, meaning the northern lights could be ...

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the European Space Agency. See the footage here along with Solar and Heliospheric ...

The northern lights could be visible from the northern United States again on Tuesday, as a coronal mass ejection from the Sun is expected to arrive and cause strong geomagnetic storms. A coronal mass ...

Mercury’s not in retrograde and all seems normal on the astronomical charts, but through the lenses of highly specialized cameras, astronomers caught something slightly unusual on the Sun’s surface ...

A pair of coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth could produce aurora farther south, but there are some question marks too. WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth and NASA ambassador Tony Rice discuss ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) On Sept. 24, 2025, NASA launched two new missions to study the influence of the Sun on ...