"Sunlight" director Nina Conti and co-writer Shenoah Allen tell IndieWire about bringing their pitch-black New Mexico-set ...

A coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting out into space from the sun on August 31, 2012. This composite image also includes a representation of Earth to show the CME's size compared to our planet.

Scientists have received approval to soon test whether “dimming” the light from the sun will combat global warming — a strategy some critics have recently described as “barking mad.” ...

We know that the sun has entered its peak phase of activity, called solar maximum. But are we still in it, or is solar maximum already behind us? Let's see what the data has to say. Although we ...

This region actually encapsulates our entire solar system, and is formed as a result of solar wind particles streaming from the sun and eventually pressing into the interstellar medium.

During previous perihelions, the spacecraft traversed a region called the Alfvén surface, where the solar wind — a stream of particles emitted by the sun — escapes into space. But for its ...

That's seven times closer than any other probe. The mission is designed to fly into the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, which spawns many of the powerful solar storms and weather that impact Earth.

Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun — or through its outer layers, depending on how you look at the maneuver — in a ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun. It will come within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the solar surface, flying into the solar ...

While nothing dramatic, it's easy to see why this causes confusion, given that many people understand gravity as an inwards curvature of spacetime, and don't look into the Sun's mechanics too often.