Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

However, rain on the Sun is made of plasma, an electrically charged, million-degree gas. As this coronal rain falls, it ...

Seeing a total solar eclipse along its path of totality is a rare, often once-in-a-lifetime event. It only lasts a few minutes, which is enough time to wow and awe observers but not nearly enough time ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

Jack Harvey has spent his life figuring out how the sun works, and he's got as good a handle as anyone on what is happening 93 million miles away on our nearest star. This past week, Harvey was ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...

To make these solar panels, Indian companies need PV cells—which are the small parts that convert sunlight into electricity. Since India doesn’t yet make enough of these cells on its own, it is ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Damien Galano, project manager for European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission, about a new plan to study solar eclipses. Seeing a total solar eclipse along its path of ...