The sun

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

The European Space Agency has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, using data from the Solar Orbiter probe.

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

The sun fired off an X1.2-class solar flare on Friday (Jan. 3), triggering radio blackouts throughout parts of the South Atlantic ocean, Africa and South America.

This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year.

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20.