The Sun appears to break one of nature's most basic rules. Normally, moving away from a heat source should make temperatures fall.

Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that shaped the Milky Way.

A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most powerful solar telescope on Earth has just given us a key to help unlock the magnetic mysteries of the Sun. Now, the ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

Scientists have created the first detailed maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary, where solar material breaks free and ...

The elemental composition of the Sun’s hot atmosphere known as the ‘corona’ is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle, a team of scientists from UCL, George Mason University and ...

Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun. What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet light.

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new research by Queen's University Belfast has found. Solar flares, which are sudden ...

Images of a total solar eclipse provide a unique scientific opportunity to view otherwise invisible parts of the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Observations of a sunspot taken on 04/10/2017 in H-alpha using the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. A new £5 million, five-year project will tackle fundamental questions in solar ...

The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions, and large ...