A dark, sharply defined opening in the Sun’s outer atmosphere has grown at an unusually fast pace, doubling in size in ...

Vast arrays of floating solar panels near the equator could provide unlimited clean energy to countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa, according to new research. Engineering professors at ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles. Reading time 3 minutes For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have ...

For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal our star's magnetic field is a powder keg ready to blow. When ...

Space-based solar panels have been researched by some of the more fanciful scientists on the planet for quite some time based on the clear advantages that such technology would have over earth-based ...

NASA's new Solar Orbiter is set to transform what we know about the Sun — and help protect the technology humans depend on every day in the process. On February 9, NASA and the European Space Agency ...