The sun has erupted with another X-class solar flare, adding a fourth huge solar explosion to the 48-hour tally. Continue reading →

In the early hours of this morning, the sun exploded to life with an X1.7 flare -- the biggest of the year, so far. Continue reading →

As it makes its death-defying dive toward the sun, Comet Pan-STARRS is dazzling the inner solar system, saturating the pixels of a solar observatory's digital camera. ->

Alan Friedman has two jobs. By day, he makes greeting cards. Come night time, he's a respected astronomy photographer who shoots from his observatory in Buffalo. His latest are gorgeous photos of the sun's flares captured like never before. The images of the sunspot Active Region 1429 were shot Mon...

Never know when to leave the sun? A wristband might have the answer for you. Developed by a team at Scotland's Strathclyde University, a new paper wristband will change color when exposed to unsafe levels of ultraviolet radiation. The band uses an acid-release agent that picks up UV rays while a dy...

While the recent NASA-related news on Earth may be about the Shuttle Discovery taking its final flight, piggybacking a 747, to its final resting place where it will become a museum piece, another big event happened in outer space. Sure things are always happening in different regions of outer space...

Last night, my wife Deb and I went to watch the Roland Emmerich movie 2012. Deb fell asleep. She was the lucky one. I'm joking, it wasn't that bad, we just had to attend the midnight showing as the earlier showings were all sold out. It looks like the 2012 doomsday phenomenon is still alive [...]

The sun gets a close up of one of its beautiful blemishes by brand new adaptive optics kit attached to the Big Bear Solar Observatory.