For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the corona, located farther from the Sun’s core, could be millions of degrees ...

Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...

The discovery could explain how the corona's temperature greatly exceeds that of the Sun's surface, and identify a key driver ...

However, rain on the Sun is made of plasma, an electrically charged, million-degree gas. As this coronal rain falls, it ...

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted ...

Fine grained structures have been detected in the sun’s outer corona. In a paper published on July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists led by Craig DeForest — solar physicist at ...

NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph captured the blast that showed the sun's raw power in action.

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first-ever images of the sun's ...