Sources: CNN
The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the most intense since October 2024. 2025-11-11
ISRO successfully launches the PSLV-XL rocket carrying the European Space Agency's PROBA-3 satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, in a solar observatory mission to gather data about the Sun's atmosphere. 2024-12-5
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 announce, through the journal "Nature", the discovery of Barnard's Star b, a Super-Earth exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun. 2018-11-14
NASA launches the "Parker Solar Probe", an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun. 2018-08-12
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 While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s. 2015-07-14
NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California. 2013-06-27
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