That means the sun’s total gamma-ray emission is most intense along its equator at solar minimum and at its poles during maximum. To visualize this, imagine looking at a swarm of fireflies in a ...

Going inside won’t necessarily protect you from the sun’s harmful rays. Here’s how to protect your skin whether you’re at home or on the go.

"The sun is more surprising than we knew," Nisa said. Before you start worrying, no, these rays can't harm us. But what they can do is have a pretty important ripple effect for the future of solar ...

"UVB rays cause sunburns by damaging the skin’s outer layers, and overexposure can lead to rashes and irritation in people with sun allergies. UVA rays, which penetrate deeper, can also cause ...

It is the middle of summer in NEPA with plenty of time to have some fun in the sun…but don’t forget to protect your skin! A ...

The missing middle. These plots show that the sun shot light called high-energy gamma rays from its middle during a period of low solar activity (from about August 2008 to the end of 2009, left ...

The UV Index provides a measure of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, a short wavelength of light invisible to humans, that can ...

It's easy to think of the sun as simply a bright, orange ball. But thanks to high energy X-rays dancing on its surface, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) was able to snap an ...

Those harsh summer rays don’t just affect you, they can also affect your home. Here are some effects the sun has on your home’s exterior and interior and how to prevent it.

The sun is emitting less iron, as seen in X-rays, than the models predict. Astronomers now say they're a step closer to figuring out why.

X-rays light up the surface of our Sun in a bouquet of colors in this new image containing data from NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope.

"UVB rays cause sunburns by damaging the skin’s outer layers, and overexposure can lead to rashes and irritation in people with sun allergies. UVA rays, which penetrate deeper, can also cause ...