Every day on Earth, you experience weather. You feel the wind blowing and see clouds move across the sky. Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A spot on the sun 10 times larger than Earth has been seen ...

Solar energy is abundant and frustratingly ill-timed. A sunbeam can become either electricity (useful for running modern life ...

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, and how it affects Earth. While we all rely on the sun for warmth and light, ...

A novel thin-film technology enables solar panels to generate electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.

At Walking Mountains, we use solar energy to support the Eagle County emission reduction goals and guide the community on energy savings. But what exactly is solar and why are we using it? Solar ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered new large-scale waves moving deep inside the sun, driven by magnetic fields far below the surface. These waves provide a window into parts of the sun that ...

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...