Sources: NBC
The sun emits the largest solar flare since 2005, days after producing auroras in the Northern and Southern Hempisheres. 2024-05-14
India launches Aditya-L1, its first solar observation mission, to observe the solar corona, photosphere and chromosphere, and to study solar winds and solar flares and their effect on Earth and near-space weather. 2023-09-2
According to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the Sun nearly 4 billion years ago. 2020-10-1
Astronomers discover 95 brown dwarfs near the Sun through the Backyard Worlds project. 2020-08-19
Scientists (in the article published in the journal "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics") warn that the ozone layer that protects people from the sun's ultraviolet radiation is recovering only over less populated areas. 2018-02-6
Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU). 2016-10-11
Scientists at Northumbria University in northeast England develop a computerized statistical model of the Sun's solar cycle (a measurement of the number of sunspots and solar flares, in this case between 1976 and 2008, and their intensity and activity). While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s. 2015-07-14
At least part of Comet C-2012 S1 (also known as Comet Ison) emerged from behind the Sun's corona. 2013-11-29
New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole. 2012-11-29
The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun. 2012-06-6