Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.

The Parker Solar Probe has uncovered a surprising clue about how solar storms form, revealing new particle behaviour that ...

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

On August 19, 2022, solar astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui ...

Since July 2025, the European Space Agency's pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So ...

Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during ...

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For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

In 1607, Johannes Kepler projected an image of the Sun onto a piece of paper and spotted a dark smudge. He thought he was ...