This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! Since you can’t visit the Sun right now—it is about 93 million miles away after all—you need to rely on pictures taken by telescopes ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Latvia have posited the first comprehensive physical explanation for the sun's various activity cycles. It ...

Understanding how the Sun and its activity impact Earth and the solar system is important because solar storms affect the technology we use on Earth and in space. Now, a team of heliophysicists and ...