Celebrate all things solar with Sun Camp, featuring hands-on STEAM activities and Q&As with Sun scientists. The center of our solar system and our closest star, the Sun is so much more than a light ...

Sun Camp marketing material for the five week heliophysics program. Credit: Carrie Lapolla The synchronous component of Sun Camp consisted of weekly live Zoom Q&A sessions with a diverse group of ...

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The sun might be a magnetic slacker. A census of stars similar to the sun shows that our own star is less magnetically active than others of its kind, astrophysicists report in the May 1 Science. The ...

The heatwave we’re experiencing is a testament to how powerful our sun is. But how exactly does the sun produce all this heat? The sun has been creating heat and light a lot longer than plants and ...

For the first time, a spacecraft has made contact with the sun. During a recent flyby, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered the sun’s atmosphere. “We have finally arrived,” Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s ...

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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a “rechargeable solar battery,” storing ...

The sun has risen on a new set of postage stamps. The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Friday (June 18) released "Sun Science," a collection of 10 stamps celebrating the study of heliophysics ...

The sun is taking center stage with recent solar flare activity sparking modest space weather tomorrow, with an added metaphorical selfie as NASA recently released the first-ever images of the sun’s ...

Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...