Ever wondered why some plants in your garden seem to flourish while others struggle? The answer often comes down to how much sunlight each spot receives. Getting familiar with the sun and shade ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions—appear at mid-latitudes and ...

The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...

Thanks to new calculations by a Dartmouth geochemist, scientists are now looking at the earth’s climate history in a new light. Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, ...

OH, YEAH. GREAT. YEAH, I KNOW. BUT THEY PASS THROUGH, RIGHT? AND THEN THE SUN POPS OUT AFTER IT’S KIND OF THE PATTERN THAT WE ARE IN. BUT JUST A HEADS UP ABOUT TODAY, THAT PATTERN CONTINUES. BUT A FEW ...

Strong magnetic fields keep the equator spinning faster than the poles and prevent a rotation flip, even as stars slow down with age Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most ...