SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The sun makes a big difference in the temperature, if you have a thermometer in the sun versus shade. Plus, surfaces make a difference, especially if you are in a city versus the ...

Using a technique employed by astronomers to determine stellar surface temperatures, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have measured the temperature inside a single, ...

The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The crisp fall days and cooler weather will be approaching soon, with sunsets getting earlier as we lose daylight further into the season and following winter months. In the world of ...

Arizonans enduring another summer are well-acquainted with encountering a searing hot seat belt buckle or nearly boiling water from a garden hose. With high temperatures in Phoenix expected to float ...

In the final moments before a total solar eclipse, the temperature drops, birds and insects sing, and the ambient light becomes otherworldly. Daytime morphs into a 360-degree dusk, and where the Sun ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

In the sun’s midday glare, a white cumulus cloud bounces light off its surface, cooling its interior. But in infrared ...

The fiery Sun is our life-giving star. But now, experts are seeing it in a way never before imagined, thanks to the world’s largest solar telescope. The Inouye Solar Telescope is perched atop the ...