Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon, or ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based on data collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, our solar system’s ...

Visitors from throughout Southern California often park their beach chairs and fishing gear on the narrow stretch of rocky sand that surrounds the Big Bear Solar Observatory, as it juts into Big Bear ...

Sunspot AR3842 erupted with an X7.1-class solar flare. NASA models predict that the coronal mass ejection created by the ...

CLOUDCROFT, N.M. – The Sunspot Solar Observatory near Cloudcroft is scheduled for demolition, leaving fans and former residents devastated over the loss of this piece of New Mexico history. Earlier ...

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One of the observatories that are dedicated to looking at and monitoring the activity of the Sun has captured a stunning image. The image was posted to NASA's Sun-dedicated Twitter account, where the ...

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Christoph Keller has been appointed as the next Director of the National Science Foundation’s National ...