SUN

The Parker Solar Probe mission to touch the sun is well underway and on schedule for a 2018 launch.

Other than accretion, the process involved collisions between planetary bodies, vaporized rock and the resulting silicate atmospheres.

The sun is reaching the least active point in its cycle, yet it continues to erupt in solar flares.

Flares during this period in the Sun's cycle are very rare and researchers say the findings will help them acclimatize themselves with these anomalies and give them enough data to help start a prediction pattern for them in the future.

Solar eruptions are going to cause a geomagnetic storm on Earth, and you might see auroras in the lower 48 states of the U.S.

If you noticed temporary "night" vision when the eclipse happened, don't think you were bestowed with some superhuman powers. Your eyes were playing a trick on you, according to a new study.

NASA has taken some impressive photos of the sun's surface while studying our star.

Jets that were used to collect data during the eclipse are stuck in Texas, but preliminary findings look good.

There will be a total lunar eclipse in January, and no you don't need glasses to view it.

There are plenty of total solar eclipse streams and live broadcasts to watch the rare event today.

Weather like temperature and wind will change during the eclipse so NOAA is planning to study it.

The sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface. Here’s why that matters.

The sun was very active during the total solar eclipse of 1097, so early civilizations got to see solar eruptions during the astronomical event.

There are four Earth-sized planets orbit a star very similar to our sun fairly close to Earth.

If the moon orbits Earth about once a month, why are solar eclipses so rare?

The observations of solar activity come weeks ahead of the upcoming total solar eclipse, the first one to be visible from the United States in 99 years.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is going to solve the mystery of whether this ancient space object is one weird-shaped rock or two that are close enough to touch each other.

The observation was also remarkable for being made during the twilight of dawn, a time when most astronomers have already packed up for the night.

The corona is several hundred times hotter than the 6,000 degrees temperature of the sun’s surface, and this mysterious difference could be linked to solar magnetic activity.

New research from NASA and the ESA shows that the sun's core actually travels four times as fast as the surface does.

We are only halfway through 2017 and already NASA has given us dozens of amazing photos of our planet, our solar system and our universe.