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

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

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

Astronomers have finally unraveled the enigma of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, is significantly hotter ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

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

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

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope ...

At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes The Sun is getting a surprise ...

Astronomical teams across the world — from ground-based observatories to orbiting spacecraft — are now preparing to capture ...