Last night, the sun and Earth collaborated to give us a light show that no fireworks display could rival. Happy New Year!

The countdown to a new year has been marked by some incredible sunsets.

Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...