Sources: NBC
The Sun releases the largest solar particle event towards Earth since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. 2026-01-19
The sun emits the largest solar flare since 2005, days after producing auroras in the Northern and Southern Hempisheres. 2024-05-14
Scientists announce that NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" became the first ever spacecraft to enter the stellar corona of the Sun during a flyby in April. 2021-12-14
Astronomers discover 95 brown dwarfs near the Sun through the Backyard Worlds project. 2020-08-19
In a rare celestial event, Mercury passes directly between Earth and the Sun for five and a half hours. Mercury's next transit will be in 2032. 2019-11-11
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
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 While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s. 2015-07-14
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
An unusually large coronal mass ejection emitted by the Sun barely missed the Earth by nine days, dubbed the Solar storm of 2012. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. 2012-07-23
The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun. 2012-06-6