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
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
NASA launches the "Parker Solar Probe", an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun. 2018-08-12
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 While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s. 2015-07-14
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