The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

NASA reports intense solar flares since February 1, and spiritually, many believe this fiery surge signals a massive ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...

The Sun, our closest star, has always been an intriguing entity for scientists to delve into. Its fiery blaze and elemental nature have been subjects of study for centuries. However, a recent ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...

When a dramatic solar video began circulating earlier this year, it looked like something out of science fiction: a bright filament at the Sun’s north pole appeared to shear away and whirl around the ...

Puffed-up Sun. Data from inside the Sun’s corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — helped astrophysicists to create a sharper picture of the Sun’s shifting boundaries than ever before. The ...

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north and ...