SDO has roughly two 'eclipse seasons' per year, and is currently in its 31st since the mission launched. It begain on July 10 ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

The planet is just a tad smaller than Jupiter and completes its orbit in just seven days. Scientists believe that because of ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.

A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious ...

July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to ...

We’ve never known why sunspots can last on our star’s surface for as long as they do, but we finally cracked the case.

NASA will launch a sounding rocket Friday, July 18 from New Mexico near the Texas border. Here's what to know about the ...