Learn how a new instrument will increase the telescope’s ability to spot sunspots in unprecedented detail.

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

Haile can make both on demand. Although the sun’s energy is inarguably an enormous resource, researchers have long experienced difficulty harnessing it. Solar cells, which have advanced significantly ...

The Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory takes spectacular portraits of the sun, like this ultraviolet view of active regions captured in 2015. In July, humanity will dispatch its first ...

You then need a huge team and it’s very expensive,” he explained to Wired magazine in 2016 ... so we use what we get from the sun, and if we need more energy at take-off for example, we ...

His work has been published in the Washington Post, Electric Literature, The Sun Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, the Best American Essays 2022, and elsewhere.

Finn Cohen is an editor and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Sun magazine, The Moscow Times, Pitchfork, VICE, Our State, and WALTER magazine. He holds a B.A. from Duke ...