The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

The sun's corona, which means crown, is one of the most mysterious places in the solar system. This outer layer of the sun's atmosphere is blocked from view by the brighter photosphere — the sun's ...

A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's ...

A solar flare is an intense burst of electromagnetic radiation generated in the sun's atmosphere — the layers of sparse but hot gas that lie above its visible surface, or photosphere. Earth's ...

The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots related to increasing solar activity.

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The "surface" of the sun — the photosphere, or sun's visible part — is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius). Oddly, however, even though it is farther away from the sun's ...

The Solar Atmospheric Modeling Suite, or SAMS, project aims to build a next-generation modeling tool for the solar atmosphere—making a code that can be run on anything from laptops to the latest ...