For most people, spring and summer means fun in the sun. For this 24-year-old, it means avoiding her life-threatening sun ...

The findings could eventually aid in better predictions of space weather.

New observations are helping scientists peer beneath the Sun’s surface, revealing where its magnetic activity may truly begin ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

For much of the past decade, Andrew McCarthy has been exploring the universe—albeit from his backyard in Arizona. Using telescopes with specialized filters, planetary cameras, and astro-specific ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark ...

Bactrim is the brand-name version of the antibiotic co-trimethoprim. Doctors often advise that you avoid getting too much sun while taking Bactrim, alongside wearing sunscreen and keep covered in ...

Sunburn and heat exhaustion aren’t the only reasons to avoid too much sunshine this summer: Going gray is another consideration. Hair strands, which grow out of glands called follicles, can't change ...

An Arizona-based astrophotographer has pulled off what may be an unprecedented feat in photography: capturing a skydiver in free fall perfectly aligned with the surface of the sun. Andrew McCarthy, ...