Today marks the start of a new era in solar observations with the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO for short. As mentioned inthis week's GeekDad Space Report, SDO launched today aboard ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon, or ...

One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does — look through the daily images of the Sun from NASA’s Solar ...

Do you have any idea how jaw-droppingly gorgeous our Sun is? I do. But then I’ve been keeping my eye on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which stares at the Sun 24 hours a day, week after week. It ...

A large active region on the sun erupted with another X-class flare on Oct. 27, 2014—its fourth since Oct. 24. The flare peaked at 10:47 a.m. EDT. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. On a clear day, the sun appears warm and inviting from 93 million miles away, but we know better. Upon ...