A swirling sea of pink, where fluffy tufts float majestically upward, while elsewhere violet plumes rain down from above.

A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The ...

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This week on the Crossroads Suncast, acclaimed quilt artist Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry and historian Stacey Wilson discuss the role of quilting in documenting social change and personal history ...

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on our sun.

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle. 2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? In April, a total ...

Last week, a federal court voided Belo Sun’s contract granting the Canadian company land rights in the region, in a major setback to its plans to carve Brazil’s largest open-pit gold mine into the ...

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