While astronomers gaze at stars farther and farther out in the heavens, some scientists want to take a closer look at the star closest to us...

SDO is GO for Launch! Come to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to watch the Solar Dynamics Observatory launch into space. Meet...

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A new solar telescope, scheduled to launch this winter, will probe the sun's atmosphere and inner workings, helping scientists better un...

This is the first mission of NASA's Living With a Star program, which seeks to reveal how solar activity is generated and to understand ...

Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful a...

When a pond's surface is calm, you can see more clearly into its depths. As it turns out, the same is true for the sun. Researchers are ...